The Impact of Culture on Information Sharing and Management

This article discusses the impact of culture on an enterprise's ability to successfully manage and share information. It explores the importance of fostering a culture of information sharing and the benefits it brings, such as filling information gaps, increasing innovation, and promoting leadership. The article also highlights the role of information sharing platforms in improving communication and efficiency within an organization.

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CULTURE AND
MANAGEMENT

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The impact of culture on an enterprise ability to successfully manage and share information is
hard to evaluate as it is one of the potential competitive advantages in today’s scenario.
Prugsamatz (2010) well-defined organisational culture as a set of values and beliefs which
function as ‘glue’ to integrate the organisation members. The characteristics of most
successful enterprise can be seen as with having of open-minded individuals and uphold a
culture of sharing of information and employee encouragement in the process of managing
and sharing information. This does not only benefit the company but it will also motivate
workers who can believe that they are “useful” as they are the part of business success at
global level in relation with information sharing. It is also identified that information
management practices of an enterprise including the values and information behaviour of its
personnel creates an impact on the performance of enterprise and leads to achievement of
specific information results in outcomes negatively or positively.
According to Shachaf (2008), identify most significant organisational cultural values and
individual values promoting sharing of information and knowledge between the employees in
the business firm. Six relevant categories were being identified by the several academic that
includes – information sharing, people, process, reward system, leadership and organisation
structure.
Organisation
Culture
Organisation
Structure
Processes
Leadership
Reward System
People
Information
System
Motivation
Communication
(Interaction)
Trust

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In competitive business environment, majority of the organisations emphasize the
significance of information sharing among members working in an organisation. With
cultural impact, information sharing help in boosting every function of an organisation
including marketing and sales to the customer service. Fostering a culture that encourages
organisation ability to share information will benefit business in filling up information gaps,
increasing innovation, promoting leadership and much more (Wang and Noe, 2010).
In an organisation, information sharing describes the interchange of data between various
people, processes and technologies in an organisation. It encourages free exchange of
information across various channels that help in various management decisions and strategies
(Lawson et al, 2009). The development of information sharing platforms in an organisation is
playing a vital role in eliminating communication impairments and incrementing the
efficiency of information sharing in the organisation. Another impact of instilling an
information sharing culture is that it allows the managers to discover the existing knowledge
gaps within the organisation and the loopholes in the current learning programs. The impact
of culture can also be seen while constructing a supportive corporate community facilitating
businesses in looking for knowledge and collecting information at a fast pace and thus ensure
the relevancy and consistency of the information being shared.
In summing up, the impact of culture with the information sharing and management brings
out various insights that are helpful in several practices starting from developing a
community and trust in the workplace and to boost the employee efficiency. At last, it will
help the organisation to save various costs as well as time associated with information
sharing.
This will surely help business to decrease their corporate silos and encourage transparency
necessary for organisational accomplishment.

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References
Lawson, B., Petersen, K.J., Cousins, P.D. and Handfield, R.B. (2009) Knowledge sharing in
interorganizational product development teams: The effect of formal and informal
socialization mechanisms. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 26(2), pp.156-172.
Prugsamatz, R. (2010) Factors that influence organization learning sustainability in non-profit
organizations. The learning organization, 17(3), pp.243-267.
Shachaf, P. (2008) Cultural diversity and information and communication technology impacts
on global virtual teams: An exploratory study. Information & Management, 45(2), pp.131-
142.
Wang, S. and Noe, R.A. (2010) Knowledge sharing: A review and directions for future
research. Human resource management review, 20(2), pp.115-131.

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