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Title
DETERMINANTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF KNOWLEDGE SHARING AMONG EMPLOYEES IN A UAE
NATIONAL OIL AND GAS COMPANY
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Mumin Dayan
Defense Date
27 April 2017
Abstract
This dissertation investigates the determinants and consequences of knowledge sharing among members
of technical teams at a UAE national oil company. The research aims to identify some of the key factors
that encourage knowledge sharing between members of the technical teams and the link between
knowledge sharing and individual job performance. Drawing on earlier research, an integrated theoretical
model linking the antecedents and outcomes of knowledge sharing was developed. A Partial Least Square
(PLS-SEM) technique was used to analyze the data collected from 357 engineers in various divisions in
the largest business unit of the organization in question. Results suggest that management support,
task-interdependence, individual attitude towards knowledge sharing, self-efficacy and the perceived
usefulness of the knowledge itself play an important role in encouraging employees to share knowledge.
Furthermore, the study suggests that knowledge sharing influences individual job performance by
enhancing their innovative and task-focused organizational behaviors. This research contributes to the
current literature on knowledge sharing and has done so by empirically testing the relationship between the
antecedents and outcomes of knowledge sharing within new cultural and industrial contexts. Additionally, it
addresses a gap in the extant literature where the focus has traditionally been on the macro-organizational
outcomes of knowledge sharing, e.g. innovation, financial performance and operational efficiency, and not
on micro-organizational factors such as individual job performance.
Dissertation
HUSSEIN SAAD ELSAYED MOHAMED
ABDALLA
Department of Business Administration
College of Business and Economics