The purpose of this study is to investigate factors influencing employee’s willingness knowledge sharing, such as Sense of Self worth in individual level and Socialization, trust, work design in Group level.
This study is using multilevel analysis, including individual level and group level to get the comprehensive data about knowledge sharing and trying to do in-depth analysis of employee’s knowledge sharing in organization. At individual level, this research tries to identify the employee’s cognitive feelings to sharing knowledge. At group level, the manager’s knowledge sharing behaviors with employees, the factors affecting knowledge sharing behaviors in teams. We also test moderating factors in group level to willingness to share their knowledge in organization. The respondents of this study are the software engineers and project managers/team leaders in Indian Software companies.
This empirical study found in the individual level sense of self worth has the relationship with employees’ willingness to share their knowledge. In group level, it was found that managerial level trust and socialization can improve an individual employee’s willingness to share knowledge. However the group level variable work design is found negative relationship, which generates interest in further research. No moderating effects were found significant, probably due to small sample size.

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