Mediation Effect of Knowledge Sharing Quality on Employee Creativity

Employee creativity requires knowledge sharing, according to many experts. What aspects of the sharing cycle encourage employee creativity? In this study, authors examined three factors, i.e., ‘opportunity for exchange (OFE), value anticipation (VA), and motivation engage (MTE)’, that influence production intellectual capital (as antecedents) its effects on outcomes) through (KS) quality (QKS: as mediating mechanism). To test hypothesized relationships, Mplus was used analyze 371 Russian IT employees. The findings suggest OFE, VA MTE are important antecedents both KS QKS. Moreover, QKS mediates relationship between (OFE, MTE) outcome variable (employee creativity). Theoretical contribution future research discussed.