Relationship between Organizational Trust and Knowledge Sharing among Staff Nurses

Abstract

Knowledge sharing is a process whereby information, skill or expertise is reciprocally exchanged among people, friends, and members of family, community or organization .Many organizations are encouraging knowledge sharing behavior among their employee in order to meet the organization’s goals and objectives. Knowledge sharing refers to the provision of task information and knows how to help others and to collaborate with others to solve problems, knowledge sharing plays an important role on increasing organizational trust (Asemahagn and Samadi, 2015). Organizational trust is a backbone of intention to share knowledge in organization. Organizational trust is a multidimensional construct relating several factors, both personal and behavioral. At the personal level, trust is a trait that comes with the employee from the moment he steps the organization, and trust as behavior that expresses the individual's willingness to be open to others and shares his own personal experiences with them (Wong, 2014).