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An Empirical Analysis on Predictors of Mentors’ Knowledge Sharing Behaviors

Author: ChenCheng
Tutor: LiaoJianQiao
School: Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Course: Business management
Keywords: Mentorship Knowledge Sharing Behavior Perceived Competition Similarity of Personality Organizational Rewards
CLC: F272
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2009
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Abstract


In the era of knowledge economy, knowledge has become one of the important elements to promote enterprises’development. As we all know, knowledge sharing behavior is conducive to enhance the intellectual capital and core competitiveness, thus, how to promote knowledge sharing behavior between employees has increasingly caught many scholars and enterpisers’attention.Be different to previous studies, this article chooses mentorship as research objects to discuss the antecedence factors of knowledge sharing behavior deeply, combining the theoretical and empirical research method in Chinese context.This thesis was divided into six chapters, Chapter 1 was mainly introduction which expatiated the background, significance, purpose, innovation and structural arrangements of this study. Chapter 2 was literature review about mentorship and knowledge sharing. In the Chapter 3, this paper presented a theoretical model and hypothesis from three aspects of individual characteristics of mentors and protégés ,their competitive relationship. Chapter 4 reported some situation of the questionnaire design and data acquisition, concretely, including questionnaire design process, framework, modification , the variables measurement and the analysis of reliability and validity. In the Chapter 5, this study tested all the hypothesis.Data analysis of 77 matched mentors and protégés showed that: (1)There are inverted U-shape relationships between mentors’age and their knowledge sharing behaviors; Mentors’conscientiousness are positively related to knowledge sharing behaviors but opness to experience is not related.(2)Ability and learning willingness of protégés are positively related to mentors’knowledge sharing behaviors which are highest when protégés’perceptions of their ability and learning willingness are lower than their mentors’perceptions.(3)Mentors perceived competition are negatively related to their knowledge sharing behaviors and the negative relationships are weker when organizational rewards and personality(conscientiousness, opness to experience)similarity between mentors and protégés are higher. Finally, we put forward the conclustion of this study, expounded the theorical and practical meaning further, as well as the research limitations and future study directions.

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