《案例一-The Effects of Job Design on》.ppt

The Effects of Job Design onEmployees’ Knowledge Contributionto Electronic Repositories Outline ? Motivations ? Research question ? Conceptual background ? Proposed model and hypotheses ? Research method ? Data analysis ? Results and discussion Motivations Electronic knowledge repositories are often used to capture and disseminate knowledge in organizations. Their effectiveness depends on employees’ willingness to contribute knowledge. The effects of job design on knowledge contribution to electronic repositories (KCER) have not been studied as observed in our literature review. KCER is different from other forms of knowledge contribution - beneficiaries may be unknown and may not provide feedback or social cues such as expressing gratitude. KCER may be a pro-social organizational behavior (Jarvenpaa and Staples 2001) motivated by factors beyond rational cost and benefit evaluation such as.affective commitment Literature Review Research Question How do job design and affective commitment influence employees’ knowledge contribution to electronic repositories? Conceptual Background:Job Design (Hackman and Oldham 1976) ? Job autonomy: the degree to which a job provides substantial freedom, independence, and discretion to an individual in scheduling work and determining the procedures for carrying out work. Job autonomy knowledge contribution (de Vries et al. 2006; Foss et al. 2009) ? Skill variety: the degree to which a job requires a variety of different activities in carrying out work, which involves the use of a number of different skills and talents of an individual. Skill variety ? knowledge contribution (de Vries et al. 2006) ? Task feedback: the degree to which carrying out the work activities required by a job results in an individual obtaining direct and clear information about the effectiveness of his or her performance. Task feedback knowledge contribution (Foss et al. 2009) Task Id