THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE SHARING AND NEGATIVE ATTITUDE AGAINST EMPLOYEE MONITORING

Authors : Cihan Tınaztepe – Funda Özer– Mehmet Kız YOZGAT, Cihan Tinaztepe, Funda Özer, Mehmet Kiziloğlu, Uğur Yozgat

Pages : 93-102

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Publication Date : 2012-12-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract : Knowledge sharing in an organization is an important part of knowledge management and its success or failure will be directly related to how much knowledge could be used by employees. Unfortunately there are some de-motivators in work environment that prevent employees to share knowledge with each others. This paper intends to interrogate employee monitoring as one of the de-motivators of knowledge sharing in organizations. In an insecure work environment where employee behaviors are monitored employees may not intend to share their knowledge with others because of confidentiality, job insecurity, mistrust. Therefore, the aim of this research is to examine the relationship between organizational knowledge sharing and employee monitoring. Employees who have negative attitude against employee monitoring complained that the implementation of electronic monitoring in their workplace caused paced work, lack of involvement, reduced task variety and clarity, reduced peer social support, reduced supervisory support, fear of job loss, routinized work activity, and lack of control over tasks. It is assumed that there is a relationship between negative attitudes against employee monitoring and knowledge sharing in organizations. This empirical research is realized by surveying 122 employees in banking sector. In this study, with inspiration taken from the related studies in literature, the relationship between two variables was tried to be identified by conducting required statistical analysis of questionnaires applied to employees.
Keywords : Organizational Knowledge Sharing