A study on relationship between workforce agility and knowledge sharing

This paper presents an empirical survey to study the relationship between knowledge sharing and workforce agility among regular employees of Malek Ashtar University of Technology located in city of Tehran, Iran. The study uses two questionnaires for measuring knowledge sharing and workforce agility...

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Main Authors: Hamed Suofi, Mohammad Reza Hosnavi, Naser Mirsepasi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Growing Science 2014-05-01
Series:Management Science Letters
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Online Access:http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol4/msl_2014_84.pdf
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Summary:This paper presents an empirical survey to study the relationship between knowledge sharing and workforce agility among regular employees of Malek Ashtar University of Technology located in city of Tehran, Iran. The study uses two questionnaires for measuring knowledge sharing and workforce agility in Likert scale. In our survey, knowledge sharing consists of three dimensions of cognitive, structural and relationship while workforce agility includes seven dimensions including intelligence, maturity, perseverance and hard-working, creativity and innovation, being responsive, flexibility and information and communication. Using Pearson correlation ratio, the study has detected positive and meaningful relationships between various components of knowledge sharing, structural, relational and cognitive, and workforce agility (r = 0.708, P-value = 0.001).
ISSN:1923-2934
1923-9343