TY - JOUR
T1 - A Quantitative Analysis of Knowledge Collaboration Enablers for Practicing Engineers
AU - Wong, Silky S.K.
AU - Cross, Jennifer A.
AU - Burton, Cherise M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, © 2020 American Society for Engineering Management.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Transferring knowledge from experts to apprentices is critical for sustaining a company’s competitive advantage. Further, existing literature indicates that employees in the Millennial (Y) generation and Generation Z prefer collaboration in the work environment. To address such needs, this research study aims to analyze the factors that enable knowledge collaboration among apprentices and experts in the practice of engineering. Survey data collected from 138 apprentices in the practice of engineering revealed that apprentices are more likely to collaborate with experts within their companies when they can trust the experts and perceive support for collaboration from senior management. This research adds to the body of knowledge by explicitly addressing apprentices’ trust, senior management support, intrinsic motivation, and knowledge collaboration with experts. Engineering managers can use this article to utilize trust, support from senior management, and employee’s intrinsic motivation to increase knowledge collaboration success among engineering experts and apprentices.
AB - Transferring knowledge from experts to apprentices is critical for sustaining a company’s competitive advantage. Further, existing literature indicates that employees in the Millennial (Y) generation and Generation Z prefer collaboration in the work environment. To address such needs, this research study aims to analyze the factors that enable knowledge collaboration among apprentices and experts in the practice of engineering. Survey data collected from 138 apprentices in the practice of engineering revealed that apprentices are more likely to collaborate with experts within their companies when they can trust the experts and perceive support for collaboration from senior management. This research adds to the body of knowledge by explicitly addressing apprentices’ trust, senior management support, intrinsic motivation, and knowledge collaboration with experts. Engineering managers can use this article to utilize trust, support from senior management, and employee’s intrinsic motivation to increase knowledge collaboration success among engineering experts and apprentices.
KW - Knowledge Management
KW - Knowledge collaboration
KW - Organization & Work System Design
KW - Organizational Performance & Assessment
KW - apprentice
KW - confirmatory factor analysis (CFA)
KW - expert
KW - expertise development
KW - exploratory factor analysis (EFA)
KW - knowledge management
KW - mentee
KW - mentor
KW - mentoring
KW - practice of engineering
KW - practicing engineers
KW - protégé
KW - structural equation modeling (SEM)
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U2 - 10.1080/10429247.2020.1780840
DO - 10.1080/10429247.2020.1780840
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85087557998
JO - EMJ - Engineering Management Journal
JF - EMJ - Engineering Management Journal
SN - 1042-9247
ER -