The Relationships among Organizational Knowledge Sharing Practices, Employees' Learning Commitments, Employees' Adaptability, and Employees' Job Satisfaction: An Empirical Investigation of the Listed Manufacturing Companies in Jordan

摘要

To explore and empirically investigate the relationships among organizational knowledge sharing practices, employees' learning commitments, employees' adaptability, and employees' job satisfaction. A cross sectional survey as a method of data collection was adopted and the population of this study consists of the entire Listed Manufacturing Companies (91companies) in Amman Stock Exchange. The results of data analysis suggest that the organizational knowledge sharing practices has taken place in the Jordanian manufacturing companies according to the perceptions of respondents. In addition, the results indicates that there is a significant statistical relationship between organizational knowledge sharing practices, employees learning commitments, employees' adaptability, and employees' job satisfaction. Finally, the results suggest that there is no difference in the evaluation of organizational knowledge sharing practices by research respondents in terms of demographic variables such as, gender, age, and level of education. This study has the limitations of the cross-sectional studies. In addition, it did not take into account if the possibility of any moderating variables that may strengthen or weaken the hypothesized relationships in this study. It enriches prior knowledge sharing theories by showing manufacturing managers the prac- tical implications of organizational knowledge sharing practices. It also draws the attention of Jordanian manufacturing managers towards the role of knowledge sharing practices in ensuring a high level of employees' adaptability and facilitating employees' learning commitments to deal with dramatic, un-predicted, and unexpected environmental changes. Finally, it gives Jordanian managers an idea of how to in-crease employees' job satisfaction by establishing knowledge sharing practices and ensuring ongoing learning process that prepare employees to think and react in new ways without panic.