As relações entre as motivações intrínsecas e extrínsecas para o compartilhamento de conhecimento

Abstract

Knowledge management is critical for organizations, especially knowledge sharing, the way which knowledge circulates in companies. Although, people are not always motivated to share knowledge in their organizations, reason that makes the study of knowledge sharing motivations relevant. Thus, this thesis main objective is to verify intrinsic and extrinsic factors influence in knowledge sharing. After a bibliographical research, a model with 27 constructs antecedents of knowledge sharing was defined. Given the difficulty of applying a survey with 130 items that contemplate all these constructs, the model was reduced. The final model has individual motivation constructs, altruism and perceived behavioral control; social motivation constructs, subjective norm and reciprocity; and organizational motivation constructs, organizational climate and financial incentives, being gender, experience, education, quantity of organizational employees and time working in the company used as control variables. Aiming to analyze the influence of scale in the relationships of antecedents of knowledge sharing, two models of analysis were instantiated, one with a single knowledge sharing construct, and other with a knowledge donation construct and a knowledge collection construct. Validation of both models was performed through structural equations modelling, specifically Partial Least Squares in a non-probabilistic sample of 208 respondents. Results indicate that there are differences in antecedents’ relationships, given the used scales for measuring knowledge sharing. Altruism was the only construct accepted in both scales. Perceived behavioral control and organizational climate are related only with the one construct scale and donation scale, while reciprocity and subjective norm are related only with knowledge collection construct. Financial incentives are significant only with the scale of one construct. Differences between analyzed groups were found, given the control variables.