The Effects of Personality on Willingness and Behavior of Knowledge Sharing

How to ensure that people share knowledge and increase performance with effective managerial knowledge has become the most important issue in organization. Making profit is not only the main purpose of non-profit organization but also pursuing efficiency what is same as enterprises. As a result, knowledge management is absolutely needed in operation of Non-Profit organization. However, the biggest obstacle of knowledge management is lots of people are not willing to share their knowledge with others. Actually adequately willing to share knowledge among colleagues is the key point of success in organization. Non-profit social welfare and benevolent foundations both are altruistic organization. Among all of members have no gains or losses relations, so they will not impede to share their knowledge. According to the above reasons, the non-profit social welfare organization and benevolent foundation are choosing to be the main subjects of this research. We are also from the personal point of the view to understand the effects of knowledge sharing, members’ (obligation duty and non-obligation duty) demographic traits, the personality and analyses the relationships between the willingness and behavior of knowledge sharing. After ANOVA and path analysis researching, we found that different demographic traits lead no obvious influence on the willingness of knowledge sharing, but the behavior of knowledge sharing. About personality traits, the neuroticism attribute has negative correlation with the willingness and behavior of knowledge sharing but the others have positive influence. The conscientiousness attribute has influence on both willingness and behavior of knowledge sharing. Keyword: Personality Traits, Knowledge Sharing PDF created with pdfFactory Pro trial version www.pdffactory.com