The effect of organi̇zati̇onal culture and justi̇ce on knowledge shari̇ng: Example of Duzce Uni̇versi̇ty

The main purpose of this study is to determine the effects of culture types and perception of justice of the organization on intention to share knowledge within the organization. Furthermore, it is also aimed to detect the effects of intention of knowledge sharing on attitude toward knowledge sharing. The study consists of two main parts. The first part consists of a theoretical framework explaining the concept of organizational culture, organizational justice and organizational information sharing. The second section covers the application of the research. In this research, quantitative research method was used and data were obtained by a questionnaire form. Duzce University academic and administrative staffs constitute universe of research. According to the data obtained from the academic and administrative staffs, the total number of employees who constituting the population of the research is 1765. 322 surveys were reached in the research. SPSS 20.0 package program was used in data analysis. According to the results of the analysis; perception of administrative staff on knowledge sharing intentions differs with respect to the status they have. Hierarchy culture type, which is one of the organizational culture types, has the most effect on the intention to share knowledge by comparison other culture types. Also procedural justice, which is one of the dimensions of organizational justice, has effect on the intention to share knowledge when other organizational justice dimension has no effect. Lastly analysis revealed that intention to share knowledge has a positive effect on the attitude toward knowledge sharing.