Sport Management Journal

The Role of Trust and Spirituality in Workplace in Knowledge Sharing Behavior in the Employees of Sport and Youth General Office of Tehran Province

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Amir Ghanbarpour Nosrati 1
Nasser Bay 2
Hossein poursoltani Zarandi 3
Mohamad siavoshi 4

1 Assistant professor. Department of sport science, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran

2 Assistant professor. Department of Physical Education, Azadshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Azadshahr, Iran

3 Associate professor. Department of sport Management, Payame noor University, Tehran Iran

4 Assistant professor. Department of physical education, Payame noor University. Iran. Tehran

https://doi.org/10.22059/jsm.2018.230301.1811
Abstract
The aim of this study was to identify the effect of trust and spirituality in workplace on knowledge sharing behavior in Sport and Youth General Office of Tehran province. 114 employees and experts of this office were randomly selected as the sample. Rahman et al. (2014) trust and knowledge sharing behavior questionnaire and Anthony (2009) workplace spirituality questionnaire were used in this study. Face and content validity was determined by experts’ viewpoints, and Cronbach's alpha test was used to determine the reliability of the questionnaires. Structural equation modeling based on Smart PLS 3 software was used to analyze the data and identify the causal relationships of research variables. Research findings confirmed the extracted model and showed that trust and spirituality in workplace had a positive and significant effect on knowledge sharing behavior of employees. Also, findings indicated that these variables totally predicted 64% of variation of knowledge sharing behavior variable. Therefore, it is suggested that managers should impel the organization culture to the rising of trust and spirituality among the employees and organization environment in order to share knowledge in organization environment.

Keywords

knowledge sharing
spirituality
sport
trust
youth
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Sport Management Journal
Volume 11, Issue 4
Autumn 2019
Pages 647-663

  • Receive Date 01 April 2017
  • Revise Date 28 October 2018
  • Accept Date 13 January 2018

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