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Incentives can't buy me knowledge: The missing effects of appreciation and aligned performance appraisals on knowledge sharing of public employees

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This study examines whether incentives affect public employees' intention to share knowledge. Tested incentives satisfy needs for either achievement or appreciation. Both treatments were tested on implicit as well as explicit knowledge sharing. A 2x3 factorial survey experiment was designed to observe within-person and between-person effects. Data were collected from public employees in the core administration and healthcare sector (n=623) in 2018. The analysis indicates that both treatments positively affect knowledge-sharing intention if it is explicit knowledge that ought to be shared. However, no effects of either treatment can be found in either type of knowledge sharing. No negative effect of the tested incentives on knowledge sharing was observed. Hence, incentives might not harm knowledge sharing but also do not pay off in organizational practice. In contrast to these motivation-enhancing human resource practices, ability and opportunity-enhancing practices should be tested to foster knowledge sharing.

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  • Fischer, Caroline, 2021. "Incentives can't buy me knowledge: The missing effects of appreciation and aligned performance appraisals on knowledge sharing of public employees," OSF Preprints u8hfy_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:u8hfy_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/u8hfy_v1
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    1. Adarsh Kumar Kakar, 2018. "How do team conflicts impact knowledge sharing?," Knowledge Management Research & Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(1), pages 21-31, January.
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    1. Fischer, Caroline & Döring, Matthias, 2021. "Thank You for Sharing! How knowledge sharing and information availability affect public employees' job satisfaction," SocArXiv nvfsr_v1, Center for Open Science.

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