DOES A SATISFIED EMPLOYEE TEND TO SHARE KNOWLEDGE BETTER A STUDY OF THE UAE PRIVATE SECTOR

This study aimed to discover the relation between job satisfaction and the knowledge sharing behavior with its three dimensions, the knowledge sharing development, knowledge sharing communication and knowledge sharing barriers. A self-administrated questionnaire was used to collect the data from several private companies where the knowledge of the employees has a direct impact on the companies ’ competitive advantage. Four hypotheses were proposed by the researchers to test the said relationships. The SPSS software used in order to test the hypothesis of the study through several tests like correlation coefficient, regression analysis, factor analysis and reliability test. The finding strongly showed the stout relation between the job satisfaction and the knowledge sharing behavior. The knowledge sharing barriers had the biggest impact from the Job satisfaction, followed by the knowledge sharing communication and the lowest, yet still strongly influenced, is the knowledge sharing development. The study will be vital in the theoretical field where we didn’t find any previous study measuring separately the relation between Job satisfaction and knowledge sharing in this part of the world. However, the biggest impact of this study will be on the managerial sides especially in a highly competitive market, like UAE, where knowledge is the main spring of the companies ’ competitive advantage yet managers don’t know how to sustain the benefit of it