Investigating the impact of organizational climate, motivational drivers, and empowering leadership on knowledge sharing

Dejan Matić, Sladjana Cabrilo, Leposava Grubić-Nešić and Bojana Milić

Knowledge Management Research & Practice, 2017, vol. 15, issue 3, 431-446

Abstract: This paper presents a research model aimed to investigate the impact of organizational climate, motivational drivers, and empowering leadership on behavioral intention formation in knowledge sharing. A research model has been developed by integrating several knowledge management studies having in-focus behavioral intention formation in knowledge sharing. The hypotheses are tested on data collected from 873 employees from public and private sector organizations from Serbia’s province of Vojvodina, using partial least square structural modeling technique and SmartPLS software. Findings suggest that organizational climate with prominent dimensions of fairness, innovativeness and affiliation, empowering leadership, sense of self-worth, and altruism significantly influence individuals’ knowledge-sharing attitude, intention, and behavior thus confirming the theory of reasoned action. Results obtained in this research expand and deepen findings reported in previous studies and enable a comprehensive framework for understanding the influence of some organizational variables on employees’ tendencies to be engaged in knowledge sharing.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1057/s41275-017-0063-9

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