DIMENSIONS OF KNOWLEDGE SHARING AS PREDICTORS OF INNOVATIVE WORK BEHAVIOUR AMONG EMPLOYEES OF SOME SELECTED UNIVERSITIES IN OSUN STATE

Abstract

Many organisations are known to operate a knowledge economy where individual and organisation performance, creativeness and innovativeness are improved by knowledge sharing. This study, therefore, examines the influence of knowledge sharing and its dimensions as predictive factors on innovative work behaviour. This study adopted a cross-sectional survey design using an ex post-factor design. Participants were 390 employees of selected Universities in Osun State, South-West Nigeria. The Universities were randomly selected while the participants were conveniently sampled. The participants are 212 (54.36%) male, and 178 45.64%) female, 105 of the participants are academic staff, and 285 of them are nonacademic staff, and 197 of the participants are in public university, and 193 of them are in private university. Data was collected using structured psychological scales. Results of the hypotheses analysis showed that knowledge sharing and its ten dimensions Anticipated extrinsic rewards, Anticipated reciprocal relationships, Sense of self-worth, Affiliation, Innovativeness, Fairness, Attitude toward knowledge sharing, Subjective Norm, Organizational Climate and Intention to share knowledge, jointly account for 9.8% of the total variation in innovative work behaviour. Furthermore, anticipated extrinsic rewards, anticipated reciprocal relationships and organisational climate have significant independent influence on innovative work behaviour. There is no significant difference in the innovative work behaviour of the participants based on their work type (academic and non-academic) and organisational type (public and private). The implication of findings is discussed in with sustainable competitive advantage, in a competitive knowledge economy.