Social capital, organizational commitment and tacit knowledge sharing: A study on the public sector in Ho Chi Minh City

• Main Author: Đoàn Bảo Sơn
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: HO CHI MINH CITY OPEN UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 2021-09-01
• Series: Tạp chí Khoa học Đại học Mở Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh - Khoa học Xã hội
• Subjects: cam kết với tổ chức; chia sẻ tri thức ẩn; khu vực công; sem; vốn xã hội
• Online Access: https://journalofscience.ou.edu.vn/index.php/soci-vi/article/view/1986

This paper explores enablers of Tacit Knowledge Sharing (TKS) behavior in the public sector. Surveys were designed by structured questionnaires to collect data using convenience sampling. Respondents are civil servants and officials have been working in state administrative agencies in Ho Chi Minh City. Thanks to leader supports, the author obtained 477 responses. The empirical findings using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) approach show that three dimensions of structural social capital, relational social capital and cognitive social capital all positively affect Organizational Commitment (OC). In turn, TKS is stimulated by OC. Based on these results, the policies implications of promoting employees to share tacit knowledge are also proposed in this article.