Actor, partner, and similarity effects of personality on knowledge sharing: does gender make a difference?

IF 3.2 4区管理学 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

Knowledge Management Research & Practice Pub Date : 2023-10-16 DOI:10.1080/14778238.2023.2269919

Jinfeng Zhang, Xin Wen, Mingjie Zhou

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ABSTRACTKnowledge sharing is essentially a product of interpersonal interaction, and the knowledge provider’s and receiver’s personalities should be considered in exploring how personality affect knowledge sharing. Following the actor – partner interdependence model, we examined the actor, partner, and similarity effects of personality on knowledge sharing in co-worker dyads, and the moderating role of gender in a sample of 528 technical employees from 38 teams. Results showed that (a) individuals who scored higher on extraversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness or lower on neuroticism were more willing to share their knowledge; (b) knowledge receivers with higher agreeableness and conscientiousness or lower neuroticism promoted knowledge providers’ knowledge sharing; (c) personality similarity did not significantly affect the dyad’s knowledge sharing; and (d) the actor effect and the partner effect of conscientiousness and the similarity effect of openness showed different patterns between same-gender and opposite-gender dyads. We highlighted personality’s dyadic impact on co-workers’ knowledge sharing.KEYWORDS: Personalityknowledge sharingactor-partner interdependence modelgender difference Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThe work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [71774156]; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2022CDSKXYGG006; 2019GGXY04]; Graduate Research and Innovation Foundation of Chongqing, China [CYS22099]; Social Science Foundation of Chongqing, China [No.2022NDYB90].

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行动者、合作伙伴和性格相似性对知识共享的影响:性别有影响吗?

摘要知识共享本质上是人际交往的产物，探究个性对知识共享的影响应考虑知识提供者和知识接受者的个性。本文以38个团队的528名技术员工为样本，运用行动者-伙伴相互依赖模型，考察了行动者、伙伴和相似度对同事二人组知识共享的影响，以及性别的调节作用。结果表明:(a)外向性、宜人性和尽责性得分较高或神经质得分较低的个体更愿意分享他们的知识;(b)亲和性和严谨性较高或神经质程度较低的知识接受者促进了知识提供者的知识共享;(c)人格相似性对二人组的知识共享无显著影响;(d)尽责性的行动者效应、伙伴效应和开放性的相似性效应在同性和异性双元组中呈现出不同的模式。我们强调了个性对同事知识共享的双重影响。关键词:人格知识共享行为者-伴侣相互依赖模型性别差异披露声明作者未报告潜在利益冲突。本研究得到国家自然科学基金资助[71774156];中央高校基本科研业务费专项经费[2022CDSKXYGG006;2019年ggxy04];重庆市研究生科研创新基金[CYS22099];重庆市社会科学基金项目[2022ndyb90]。

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期刊介绍： Knowledge management is a term that has worked its way into the mainstream of both academic and business arenas since it was first coined in the 1980s. Interest has increased rapidly during the last decade and shows no signs of abating. The current state of the knowledge management field is that it encompasses four overlapping areas: •Managing knowledge (creating/acquiring, sharing, retaining, storing, using, updating, retiring) •Organisational learning •Intellectual capital •Knowledge economics Within (and across) these, knowledge management has to address issues relating to technology, people, culture and systems.