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JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
How Hierarchal Positions Affect Employees Knowledge Sharing Behaviors? An Exploratory Study
Author(s): Kuok Kei Law, Bertha Du-Babcock
Citation: Kuok Kei Law, Bertha Du-Babcock , (2017) "How Hierarchal Positions Affect Employees Knowledge Sharing Behaviors? An Exploratory Study," Journal of Organizational Psychology, Vol. 17, Iss. 5 , pp. 129-138
Article Type: Research paper
Publisher: North American Business Press
Abstract:
This paper explores the differences in employees knowledge sharing behaviors when interacting with targets from different hierarchal positions in an organization. Eleven mid-level employees working in small and medium-sized enterprises in Hong Kong were interviewed for the exploratory purpose. The interview corpus, which consisted of 30,000 words, showed how and why mid-level employees differ in their knowledge sharing with different target audiences: their superiors, peers and subordinates. Theoretically, the findings advance our understanding of employees decisions on knowledge sharing behavior; and, in practical terms, the findings inform managers about how employees behavior is affected by hierarchal relationships in the workplace.
