THE EFFECTS OF DECISION-MAKING STYLES OF LEADERSHIP ON EMPLOYEES KNOWLEDGE SHARING WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION
Abstract
Creating, applying and sharing knowledge, constitute great importance for organizations in today’s global business
environment. In a business environment, in which competition is penetrated, managing and sharing knowledge
properly within the organization is one of the requisiteness of making effective and sustainable innovations in
order not to fall behind in the market. Thus, it can be assured that employees’ sense of belonging to the organization
is not destroyed and their organizational commitment is accrued. Correspondingly, in the event of employee
turnover it can be assured that they will not trespass on the knowledge that they have previously acquired from the
organization. In this sense, knowledge management appears to be one of the most important qualifications of a
leader and it can easily be observed that the leadership style a leader holds has divergent effects on organizational
performance along with knowledge management. The purpose of this study is to reveal which of the three different
decision-making styles, defined as “autocratic”, “democratic” and “sharing”, are adopted and applied by the
leaders, employees’ attitude towards knowledge sharing in accordance with the leader’s leadership style and the
effects of the mentioned styles on organizational performance. In this sense, Fiedler’s Contingency Theory and
Vroom-Jago Decision-Making Model of Leadership are used as baseline. The research is conducted in
organizations that are active in textile sector, in city of Bursa. According to the results, there is a statistically
significant relationship between leadership decision making models and employees’ knowledge sharing within the
organization. There is a statistically negative effect of sharing leadership on formal knowledge sharing while there
is a statistically significant and negative effect of autocratic leadership style on compulsory knowledge sharing. In
addition, there is a statistically significant and positive effect of sharing leadership style on compulsory knowledge
sharing. It has also been found out that there is statistically negative effect of democratic leadership style on incompany knowledge sharing.
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Primary Language
English
Subjects
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Journal Section
Conference Paper
Authors
Nilüfer Rüzgar
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Türkiye
Publication Date
December 31, 2018
Submission Date
April 30, 2018
Acceptance Date
December 27, 2018
Published in Issue
Year 2018 Volume: 13 Number: 2