Analyzing the Ethical Impact on Knowledge Management Approach of Organization

Abstract

Purpose: Ethics is becoming popular field of study in era of knowledge economy. The ethical encounters while carrying out knowledge management initiatives, activities have been increasing these days. There is a wide scope of research in ethics and knowledge management as being a new area and there are diverse unexplored horizons in this field. The paper aims to create.

Design/methodology/approach: The literature review was carried out to examine the existing literature on ethics and knowledge management. The data was collected from sample size of 200 employees. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was carried out to identify relevant factors for both variables. The structural equation modeling (SEM) was utilized to study the relationship amongst ethics and knowledge management.

 Findings: Six factors under ethics and three factors under knowledge management have been identified. The variable ethics strongly effectuate knowledge management approach of organization.

 Research Limitations/implications: The study explores six constructs in variable ethics and three construct in variable knowledge management on the basis of literature review. There might be more constructs under both variables which can be explored through carrying out extensive research.

Practical Implications: The proposed model can be adopted in organizations to create and develop ethical culture that fosters and facilitate knowledge management approach of an organization. Also the proposed model can be utilized for assessing the effectiveness of ethical framework on prevailing knowledge management approach of organizations.

Originality/Value: The model proposed and tested is a original model developed by the authors. It is a credible instrument to assess the ethical components that prevails in organization for nurturing knowledge management.