A Study on the Influence of Organizational Climate on Knowledge-Sharing Behavior in IT Enterprises

Abstract

The aim of our study was to further develop an understanding of organizational climate in organizational knowledge sharing. We first developed a research model in which three organizational climate factors (friendly relation, innovation and fairness) were combined with the social cognitive theory. After developing a measurement tool, we collected 142 effective questionnaires about developers from IT enterprises in south China, and examined and revised the research model by using confirmatory factoring analysis. We found that , in IT enterprises, organizational climate (friendly relations, innovation and fairness), self-efficacy and outcome expectations significantly contributed to in a staff’s knowledge-sharing behavior, organizational climate had a indirect effect on knowledge-sharing behavior by impacting self-efficacy and outcome expectations, and self-efficacy significantly contributed to outcome expectations in knowledge sharing. According to study results, we finally provided some suggestions for IT enterprises to promote organizational knowledge sharing.