Knowledge Sharing Among Healthcare Practitioners: Identifying the Psychological and Motivational Facilitating Factors.

ABSTRACT: There exists a lack of an understanding of how to facilitate knowledge sharing (KS) behaviors in healthcare organizations. This study is among the first to specifically address this issue through synthesizing psychological ownership (PO), self-determination theory, and psychological empowerment (PE) theory. This study developed a research model that described the impact of the psychological and motivational facilitating factors, including autonomous motivation, user PE, and PO on knowledge sharing intention (KSI) and knowledge sharing behavior (KSB). Data collected from 343 healthcare professionals were analyzed using the technique of partial least squares (PLS) to validate the research model. The results indicated that user PE, organization-based PO, and autonomous motivation all had sign

SUBMITTER: Wu SY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8712574 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature