Knowledge Sharing: Exploring the Links to Organizational Culture

Farshad Andam

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Knowledge Sharing: Exploring the Links to Organizational Culture

Farshad Andam

Published in International Journal of Health Economics and Policy (Volume 2, Issue 1)

Received: 18 December 2016 Accepted: 4 January 2017 Published: 26 January 2017

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Countless studies have examined the relationship between organizational culture and knowledge management, and yet there is little research done on the relationship between organization culture and knowledge sharing in public organizations. The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between organizational culture and knowledge sharing among Ministry of cooperatives, labor & social welfare employees'. Data was collected via a questionnaire designed to measure the relationship between organizational culture and all kinds of knowledge's sharing. The data collected from 193 Ministry of cooperatives, labor & social welfare headquarter experts was explored by regression analysis. Among organizational culture, clan culture leaded the employees to share embedded knowledge on request and to specific persons rather than unrequested to specific persons. Also, it can be deduced that market culture stimulated the employees to share embedded knowledge on request to everybody rather than on request and to specific persons. Furthermore, market culture urged the employees to share embedded knowledge unrequested to specific persons rather than on request and to specific persons. Moreover, 2.72% of variation in embedded knowledge sharing was explained by clan culture meanwhile, 3.92% of variation in embedded knowledge sharing was explained by market culture. The study was limited to the mentioned ministry, hence the further survey should be carried out in other Iranian and overseas organizations in order to conduct a comparative study.

Published in	International Journal of Health Economics and Policy (Volume 2, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.hep.20170201.14
Page(s)	16-26
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Knowledge Management, Knowledge Sharing, Organizational Culture

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Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor & Social Welfare, Tehran, Iran

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