The effects of RD engineers' work engagement and workplace climate on positive attitude to knowledge sharing within Japanese RD workplace

摘要

This paper aimed to present the evidence of (1) how job demand and job resource affected on R&D engineers' work engagement and depression, and (2) whether job resources and work engagement facilitated R&D engineers' positive attitude to knowledge sharing at their workplace. We collected from over 400 Japanese R&D engineers and analyzed them for the relation among job demand, job resource, work engagement and depression. Also, we tested the effect of work engagement and workplace climate on positive attitude to knowledge sharing. From the results by statistical analyses, while job demand partly had negative impacts on R&D engineers' work engagement and depression, job resource has significant positive impacts on work engagement and partly a positive impact on depression. In addition, work engagement has strong positive impacts on attitude to knowledge sharing behavior and the interaction between work engagement and supervisors' support has positive on knowledge sharing. Therefore, we concluded that workplace climate and work engagement were important for positiveness for knowledge sharing, and we should pay more attentions on workplace climate and R&D engineers' work engagement for enhancing knowledge sharing behavior.