Introduction

The literature suggests that the sharing of knowledge in team work settings succeed only if team
members actively engage in knowledge sharing and by the efficient management of
knowledge for the use by new teams with new projects (Berends et al., 2006; Lee et al.,
2010).
previous studies identify one of the negative aspects associated with these non-hierarchical work
teams as members’ reluctance to share their knowledge with the others (Cabrera and Cabrera,
2005), and as a consequence the overall performance of the team could deteriorate (Za´rraga and
Bonache, 2003).
previous empirical studies include a limited number of social dimensions (e.g. interpersonal
trust and leadership) (Lee et al., 2010) in a single study.
Effects of interpersonal trust, team leader support, rewards, and knowledge sharing mechanisms
on knowledge sharing in project teams
Vathsala Wickramasinghe and Ruvini Widyaratne is the writer of Department of Management of
Technology, Faculty of Engineering,University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
By profession Vathsala Wickramasinghe is a Professor.
Its important because of enhancing the knowledge sharing with in project teams in organization.
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of interpersonal trust, team leader
support, rewards, and knowledge sharing mechanisms on voluntary knowledge sharing in
software
development project teams in Sri Lanka.
This article tells us about factors that effect the Knowledge sharing in software developer teams
in Srilanka. Factors include the interpersonal trust, Reward, Leaderships support and knowledge
sharing mechanism.
Body

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of interpersonal trust, team leader
support, rewards, and knowledge sharing mechanisms on voluntary knowledge sharing in
software
development project teams in Sri Lanka. Survey methodology was used and 150 software
developers
who were directly involved in developing and maintaining a software product from project teams
responded. Regression analysis was used for data analysis. Interpersonal trust and rewards have
significant positive effects on knowledge sharing. Although it was anticipated that the team
leader support would be a significant predictor of
knowledge sharing, the results did not provide evidence for a positive and significant
relationship.
“Work-group communications” and “Personal interactions” had significant positive effects on
knowledge sharing. It is expected that the findings of this study will provide useful information
to
better understand the predictors of the extent of knowledge sharing at the individual level in the
context of project teams. By doing so, this exploratory study will be able to establish baseline
data and would be a source of general guidance in stimulating future research in this area.
current study to analyze several dimensions that may influence the sharing of knowledge within
an extended framework. It is expected that the findings of this study will provide useful
information for both academics and practitioners to better understand knowledge sharing
between individuals in project teams. By doing so, this exploratory study will be able to establish
baseline data and would be a source of general guidance in stimulating future research in this
area.
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Topic Name:
Effects of interpersonal trust, team leader support, rewards, and knowledge sharing mechanisms on
knowledge sharing in project teams

Author Information:
Vathsala Wickramasinghe, Ruvini Widyaratne, (2012)