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Structural Relationship between the Team Climate, Empowering Leadership and Attitude towards Knowledge Sharing with Knowledge Sharing Behavior

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Master of educational management, azad university, Isfahan branch (khorasgan), Isfahan, Iran

2 Educational Management, Education and Psychology, IAU of Esfahan (Khorasgan), Esfahan, Iran

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the structural relationship between team climate, empowering leadership and attitude towards knowledge sharing with knowledge sharing behavior. This research is cross-sectional as well as correlational and the population included those female teachers engaging in female pre-university classes in 6 districts of Isfahan education.  189 teachers were selected based on Krejcie and Morgan,s’ (1970) tabulation and through cluster sampling. For data collection, four questionnaires were used for measuring the team climate (Arnold et al., 2000), empowerment (Buck et al., 2005), knowledge sharing behavior (Hsu et al., 2007) and attitudes toward knowledge sharing (Buck et al., 2005). SPSS and partial least squares were used for data analysis. The results indicated that team climate affected knowledge sharing behavior directly but not by affecting their attitude. Also empowering leadership significantly influence individuals’knowledge-sharing behavior but not by affecting their attitude. In addition empowering leadership significantly influence attitude and knowledge-sharing behavior but not by affecting their attitude toward knowledge sharing..The structural model of relationship between team climate, empowering leadership, attitude with knowledge sharing behavior had high composite reliability.

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Knowledge Retrieval and Semantic Systems
Volume 6, Issue 20
October 2019
Pages 1-31
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