Knowledge Sharing Attitudes: The Role of Job Satisfaction, Extraversion and Self-Rated Performance

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to find the role of job satisfaction, individual employee personality (extraversion and self rated performance) on two knowledge sharing attitudes, the willingness to share knowledge and the eagerness to share knowledge, since knowledge sharing is vital to out compete in this global business context. This study contributes to the limited research base on knowledge sharing in Bangladesh and the investigation about the factors that affect knowledge sharing in Bangladeshi organizations. Primary data have been used for this study collected through questionnaire survey. The result of the study shows that Satisfied, extrovert and self rater are eager to share information more likely than expect some balance which is aligned with the prior literature. Relevant literatures are also studied about topics related to this research. Recommendation and conclusion form the last part of this paper.