The Impact of Performance Management Orientations and Appraisal Justices on Employee's Knowledge Sharing Behaviors

This paper explored the approaches and effects of performance management orientation and appraisal justice on knowledge sharing behaviors. Results showed intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation and control orientation in performance appraisal system had significant positive, weak positive and U shaped separately relation with knowledge sharing behaviors. Distribution justice had the greatest effect on KSBs, while interactive justice not only moderated the effect of extrinsic motivation orientation on knowledge sharing behaviors, but mediated the effect of performance management orientations on knowledge sharing behaviors.

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