The role of social trust in willingness to share tacit and explicit knowledge among faculty members of University of Sistan and Baluchestan

Abstract

Due to the importance of knowledge in competitive today’s world, understanding of how to enhance employees’ knowledge is an essential issue. The objective of the present research is to study the role of social trust on willingness to share tacit and explicit knowledge between faculty members of Sistan and Balouchestan University. Population of the current research is university faculty member of Sistan and Balouchestan in 2013. The sample of this research consists of 155 persons . In order to collect required data to test the research hypothesis, a questionnaire was applied that its validity has been studied using SPSS software and confirmatory functional analysis method in addition to the professors’ views and management experts. Reliability is gained respectively 924 and 836 by Cronbach Alpha using SPSS software for a questionnaire measuring social trust and knowledge sharing. Correlation coefficient and multivariable regression were used to analyze and test research hypotheses. The results from this research indicates that the social trust and its components have positive and significant effect on individual’s willingness in sharing explicit knowledge and have a few effect on sharing tacit knowledge