The effect of organizational justice on knowledge sharing: An empirical evidence from the Chinese telecommunication sector

AbstractThis study is an attempt to find out the impact of organizational justice on the knowledge sharing among the employees of the telecommunication sector of China. Particular attention is given to five forms of organizational justice namely distributive, procedural, interactional, temporal and spatial justice whereas; knowledge sharing is referred as knowledge donating and knowledge collecting. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to elicit responses from 245 employees. The data was analyzed in two step process using Amos 21. In first step, measurement model was determined through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA); while in second step structural model (SEM) was applied to test the path confidents and significance of proposed hypotheses. Results of the study suggested that if employees have positive perceptions about distributive, procedural, interactional and temporal justice, they are intrinsically encouraged to share their knowledge with their co-workers. Spatial justice, however, was found negatively but significantly effecting knowledge sharing. In organizational work context, each form of organizational justice has unique contribution toward knowledge sharing; therefore, it is suggested to consider each and every form of organizational justice as they are equally important