CHAPTER V. CONCLUSION AND REFLECTION
4. To build up good relationship between supervisor and subordinate
Relationship for people with Chinese culture is very important idea and dominates them in many aspects. In a supervisor’s mind, good relationship between them and subordinate is quite an ideally leadership style. Besides, loyalty to supervisor seems to be more important than organizational commitment in accounting for employee’s performance.
Therefore, to increase knowledge sharing in organizations, building up a mutual relationship between leader and follower is a crucial element in China-based Taiwanese companies.
In conclusion, understanding influential cultural factors and the proper handling of these factors will therefore have positive effects on the knowledge sharing with the success of the organization coming.
Suggestion for Future Research
This study aimed to contribute to the understanding of knowledge sharing behavior in general and of the cross-cultural context in particular. Mainland China has gradually increased its integration into the global competition since the market is exploring and the economy is developing. The case company can provide Taiwanese companies a management practice in Mainland China, and indeed, this issue deserves more attention in the future.
Next, this study bases on employee’s perspective to discuss their behavior about knowledge sharing; for further study, the perspective from an organization could be adopted in the future. Further, the study mainly considers the behavior and phenomenon in an organization; however, to focus on evaluation and assessment of knowledge sharing could be a worth studying topic.
Finally, in this field, “knowledge sharing in multinational companies by Taiwanese venture” is largely unexplored, but proves to be extraordinarily important for knowledge sharing. Any future research that pays attention to theses issues should be of particular value.
Limitation
Due to the specificity and uniqueness of this research, there are some limitations described as follows. To begin with, knowledge in this research is defined as expertise, and skills acquired by an employee to apply in their work. The research purpose is to know how employees with different culture backgrounds to share their knowledge with each other.
Hence, this research will centralize on this kind of employee who works in the case company.
Second, since there is vigorous development in Chinese market, to take Taiwanese enterprises in Mainland China as the main subject could show the actual situation of this kind company.
However, it is delimited to collect around one case firm; in this case firm, this research selects 23 employees from different culture backgrounds, Taiwan and Mainland China, to be the research participants; it causes the third restrict. Nevertheless, to focus on only one case would make the research give deeper understandings and discover the matters which are more difficult to deal with.
As to the fourth, knowledge in this study is defined as expertise, and skills acquired by an employee through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject, and knowledge sharing between individuals is the process by which knowledge is converted into a form that can be understood, absorbed, and used by others. None the less, it is difficult to observe the mental programs that employees think in their minds. Consequently, this study focuses on the behavior of sharing knowledge which could be inferred from to interpret their stable mental programs of the research participants.
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