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A Study On The Relationship Between Tacit Knowledge Sharing And Organizational Performance From The Impact Of Organizational Culture

Posted on:2014-03-20Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L J WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2269330392472110Subject:Business management
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Along with the global economic integration speeding up,the market competitionenvironment of the enterprise faced is becoming more and more intense, in the fiercecompetition environment, knowledge has become the important resource of theenterprise competitive advantage. More and more domestic and overseas enterprisesstart to pay attention to the role of knowledge, and gradually increase the investment inknowledge system and information construction. More and more scholars start toresearch on knowledge. Studies show that explicit knowledge only accounted for20%and tacit knowledge accounted for about80%in the enterprise, while the tacitknowledge can be encoded is only about1/3, so most enterprises knowledge cannot beencoded and be difficult to transfer and sharing.For a enterprise, the aim of carrying out Knowledge is to improve itsorganizational performance, how to realize the sharing of tacit knowledge so as toachieve the purpose of improving organizational performance? Among the many factorsthat affect tacit knowledge sharing, organizational culture is one of the most important.Organizational culture is the guide, constraints, condensation, excitation and radiation, itis a core of corporate values and spiritual, and is very important for the development ofenterprises. How does the organizational culture have effects on the tacit knowledgesharing activities and then influence the organizational performance? This paper isbased on the thinking, this article adopts the research line from organizational culture totacit knowledge sharing and last to organizational performance. Based on theclassification of organizational culture by Quinn and Cameron, the thesis has studied onthe four influence mechanism to tacit knowledge sharing caused by organizationalculture, and particularly researched on the influence on organizational performancemade by tacit knowledge sharing.On the basis of previous research results, this paper makes theoretical analysis.From the perspective of organizational culture, the paper made empirical research andestablished a theoretical research model. Take enterprise company age and theenterprise’s industry type as control variables to research the mechanisms betweenorganization culture and tacit knowledge sharing. At the same time it studied on theinfluence on organizational performance made by tacit knowledge sharing underdifferent organizational culture types. Through the analysis of questionnaire survey, data, and use SPSS to do correlation analysis, difference analysis and regression analysis, atlast the results show that clan culture has a positive impact on tacit knowledge sharing,dynamic culture has a positive impact on tacit knowledge sharing, market culture has anegative effect on tacit knowledge sharing, hierarchical culture the negative influenceon tacit knowledge sharing, tacit knowledge sharing has a positive effect onorganizational performance under clan culture, tacit knowledge sharing has a positiveeffect on organizational performance under dynamic culture, tacit knowledge sharinghas a negative effect on organizational performance under market culture. This paperput forward a theory research model of "organizational culture~tacit knowledgesharing~organizational performance ",it explored the contents of the theory of tacitknowledge sharing.This study can provide some methods and suggestions for enterprises to promotethe sharing of tacit knowledge, improve the efficiency and effectiveness of tacitknowledge, and improve enterprises performance, promote the development ofenterprises.
Keywords/Search Tags:Organizational culture, Knowledge sharing, Tacit knowledge sharing, Multiple regression
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