Knowledge Sharing, Individualism, Collectivism and Organizational
Innovative Behaviour in the Public Health Organizations
- Khawaja Asif Tasneem,
- Saba Feroz Qureshi
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to investigate that either individualists
or collectivists employees are more innovative in the public sector
concerning knowledge sharing and organizational culture. The study
adopted quantitative research technique and data was collected through
an online survey. We collected data from a field study of 480 employees
working in Pakistan's two major public health institutions to test the
study's hypotheses. The study adopted a hierarchical linear regression
model to test the hypothesis. Our results show that there is a
significant positive influence of organizational-based knowledge
sharing, individual-based knowledge sharing, collectivism, and
individualism on organizational innovative behavior in the
organizations. Furthermore, this study also found a significant positive
impact of collectivism and individualism as moderators on organizational
innovative behavior. Finally, this study concluded that collectivism has
a higher positive impact on organizational innovative behavior in
comparison to individualism.