人员流动对组织间隐性知识共享影响研究

The effect of employee mobility on tacit knowledge sharing among organizations

促进组织间隐性知识共享是一个企业取得成功的关键.隐性知识和人与人之间传染病的传播途径非常相似,主要是通过人与人之间的直接接触进行传播的.文章受传染病动力学建模思想的启发,针对有人员相互流动的两个组织,并考虑员工的引入和离职,构建了两组织间的隐性知识传播动力学模型,给出区分实现组织间隐性知识共享与否的阈值,并对模型进行数值仿真以验证所得理论结果的正确性.从理论性定量研究的角度说明,在两组织间适当进行人员流动能有效促进组织间隐性知识共享,而如果人员流动不合理则会起到抑制作用.

Encouraging employees to share tacit knowledge among organizations is critical to a firm＇ s success. Tacit knowledge propagates through direct contact among individuals. This process exhibits characteristics that are similar to those of spreading epidemic between individuals. The paper constructs a dynamics model of tacit knowledge transmission to describe the tacit knowledge spreading in two organizations with employee mobility applying the modeling thought of the infectious diseases transmission dynamic method. The paper also considers the introduction and departure of employees. A threshold that governs whether tacit knowledge can be shared among organizations exists. Numerical simulations are presented to support the aforementioned theoretical results. The paper confirms, from both theoretical and quantitative perspective, that encouraging employee mobility appropriately can effectively promote tacit knowledge sharing among employees between two organizations. Further, if employee mobility is unreasonable, it will play an inhibiting effect.