Literature review to measure relational psychological contract, affective commitment and intention to share tacit knowledge
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literature review, measurement instrument, relational psychological contract, affective commitment, tacit knowledgeAbstract
Many organizations believe that only with high technology use they can obtain competitive advantages and they have ignored widely what the persons’ tacit knowledge represents. This knowledge is able to create sustainable competitive advantages that allow organizations to distinguish one from another when they possess valuable resources such as people able to form teams and ensure a workforce that cannot be copied by its competitors.
The objective of the present research is to analyze the different used forms to measure the relational psychological contract, the affective commitment and the intention to share tacit knowledge. The literature review of the present work was realized from January 2014 to August 2015 and sixteen researches related with relational psychological contract were analyzed; twenty-four to affective commitment and fourteen to intention to share tacit knowledge. The results show the use of various instruments and adaptations of it to measure the studied variables of which 68.75% of the researches used the Scale of Psychological Contract to measure the relational psychological contract; 95.83% used the Three- Component Model to measure affective commitment and 42.86% used the measurement scale developed by Bock, Zmud, Kim and Lee (2005) to measure the intention to share tacit knowledge. Findings include that the highest rate of reliability obtained in the instruments used to measure relational psychological contract was a Cronbach Alpha .90; to affective contract was .93 and .98 to intention to share tacit knowledge. Also studies shows that the larger quantity of subjects used in the application of instruments to measure the relational psychological contract was 1028, to affective commitment 1500 and 2010 to intention to share tacit knowledge.
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