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Knowledge sharing and knowledge hiding in light of the mistakes acceptance component of learning culture- knowledge culture and human capital implications
Abstract
Purpose: This study examines the micromechanisms of how knowledge culture fosters human capital development. Method: An empirical model was developed using the structural equation modeling method (SEM) based on a sample of 321 Polish knowledge workers employed in different industries. Findings: This study provides direct empirical evidence that tacit knowledge sharing supports human capital, whereas tacit knowledge hiding does not, and this hiding is considered a waste of knowledge. If tacit knowledge does not circulate within an organization, it is a severe waste of an organization. The findings indicate that shame from making mistakes might impede the sharing of knowledge gained from making those mistakes, and in such cases, the knowledge remains hidden. Practical implications: Leaders aiming to ensure human capital growth should implement an authentic learning culture composed of a learning climate and mistakes acceptance components that enable open discussion about mistakes on each organizational level. Originality: The knowledge culture is found to be an essential element of building human capital but, at the same time, not sufficient without a learning culture, and its mistakes acceptance component. A permanent organizational learning mode that supports a continuous organizational shared mental model reframing is an antidote to tacit knowledge hiding. Keywords: knowledge culture, knowledge sharing, knowledge hiding, learning culture, mistakes acceptance, learning climate
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Teresa Rebelo
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- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1108/TLO-03-2022-0032
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- Articles
- Type:
- artykuły w czasopismach
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The Learning Organization
no. 29,
pages 635 - 655,
ISSN: 0969-6474 - Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Bibliographic description:
- Kucharska W., Rebelo T.: Knowledge sharing and knowledge hiding in light of the mistakes acceptance component of learning culture- knowledge culture and human capital implications// The Learning Organization -Vol. 29,iss. 6 (2022), s.635-655
- DOI:
- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1108/tlo-03-2022-0032
- Sources of funding:
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- IDUB
- Verified by:
- Gdańsk University of Technology
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