The Effects of Job Design on Employees’ Knowledge Contribution to Electronic Repositories

Motivating employees to contribute knowledge has been a daunting challenge in knowledge management. This study examines how job design influences employees’ knowledge contribution to electronic repositories. Based on Warr’s Vitamin Model, we posit that the job autonomy, skill variety, task feedback, task identity, and task significance aspects of job design influence employees’ knowledge contribution to electronic repositories through shaping their affective commitment. Results from a survey of 163 professionals indicate that while job autonomy and task significance have positive linear effects, skill variety and task identity have curvilinear effects such that increasing their levels initially improves employees’ affective commitment but at very high levels they have negative impacts. This study contributes to theoretical development by identifying the differential effects of various aspects of job design. The findings suggest that managers should be mindful of the double-edged quality of some job characteristics in promoting employees’ knowledge contribution to electronic repositories

The Effects of Person-Environment Fit on Employees’ Knowledge Contribution

Various individual and organizational factors influencing employees’ knowledge contribution to electronic repositories have been identified but their effects often vary across employees and studies. This study proposes that examining the fit between employees and their organizations may explain the variations. Analysis of data from a survey of 211 employees using polynomial regression and response surface methodology indicates that when employees’ ideals about the level of skill variety, task identity, organizational innovativeness fit with those in their organizations, they develop strong commitment and engage in more knowledge contributions. In contrast, person-environment (PE) misfit in these aspects (i.e., shortfall or excess) has deleterious effects. Interestingly, excess in job autonomy, task significance, and generalized trust does not have negative impact. The PE fit theory accounts for both employee-side and organization-side effects and enriches our conceptual understanding of the antecedents of knowledge contribution. It also highlights new directions for promoting knowledge contribution in practice

Knowledge management capability: A resource-based comparison of public and private organizations

ICIS 2009 Proceedings - Thirtieth International Conference on Information System

Understanding the drivers, enablers, and performance of knowledge management in public organizations

10.1145/1509096.1509188ACM International Conference Proceeding Series351439-44

The impact of institutional influences on perceived technological characteristics and real options in cloud computing adoption

ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information System

The Effects Of Business Process Orientation On Innovation

With the evolution of customer’s needs, innovation becomes a core competency of organizations to success in the intense global competition nowadays. Business process orientation (BPO), as “a state of mind” of the organization, emphasizes to employ a customer-and-process-oriented way to rethink and reengineer business. It is interesting and important to understand the role of process-oriented thinking and working in the innovation-driven economy. To better understand BPO, this study applies McCormack’s definition to consider BPO’s influences on innovation in both employee and organization levels in aspect of three main components. Results from questionnaire survey of Japanese companies show that BPO has positive association with employees’ innovative behavior, and then enhance company’s innovation performance sequentially. Meanwhile, employees’ innovation is a mediator in this link. Therefore, BPO supports innovation, but it cannot guarantee success. Motivating all employees to participate and do innovation is a key for generating innovative solutions for customer through being BPO. This paper contributes to the research by understanding the deeper link between BPO and innovation in Japan which is a highly relevant but understudied context. The findings also recommend companies to motivate employees’ innovative behavior as well as improving BPO to being innovative

Knowledge transfer between external IT consultants and business professionals in IS Development-Impact of social interdependence

PACIS 2007 - 11th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Managing Diversity in Digital Enterprise

Development and application of a General Knowledge Management Maturity Model

PACIS 2006 - 10th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: ICT and Innovation Economy401-41

Knowledge sharing in information systems development: A social interdependence perspective

Journal of the Association of Information Systems1110550-57