What drives employees to share their tactic knowledge in practice

Article Analysis Tables
Article Information (CLO 1)
Title:
(1 point)
“What drives employees to share their tactic knowledge in practice”
The title is discussing the motivational factors that influences staffs to
utilize their skills and knowledge for the benefit of the organization.
Author(s):
(1 point)
Yong Sauk Hau, Byoungsoo KIm and Heeseok Lee
The authors of the article are specialists of business, and therefore they
are best individuals to this topic involving business. They work in great
business school. Yong at School of Business of the Yeungnam
Universiity. As for Byoungso, he works as a business administrator in the
University. Heeseaok also works in a Business school, KAIST
Source:
(1 point)
Palgrave Macmillan
ISSN: 1477-8246
Journal no.: 41275
Dou: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/journal/41275#
Analysis Information (CLO 1)
Purpose:
(6 points)
The authors wrote about “What drives employees to share their tactic
knowledge in practice” to unveil the secret behind those organization that
has accomplished to encourage their employees to use their individual
knowledge, skills, and experience to conduct the task of the organization.
It intends to identify the specific motivational factors for those
employees to apply their tactic knowledge. It also seeks to examine what
does not influence employees to utilize their personal know-how. By
covering this, it wishes to help organizations motivate their staffs to use

their tactic knowledge and promote their competitive advantage.
Audience:
(6 points)
This journal addresses how to ensure employees are efficient at their
work, and as a result promote the competitive position of the
organization. Therefore, it would interest the following audiences: the
management, supervisors, shareholders, higher institutions of learning,
the human resource and staffs. It would allow the stakeholders mentioned
above apply or support tools that motivate employees. Additionally, it
could be used to formulate a reward and compensation system for a
company
Subject:
(6 points)
The subject under discussion in this article is employee motivation. This
is evident from the title of the journal. The primary factor is what drives
employees to apply their knowledge. The subtopic and content of the
paper as well cover various issues about the subject. They talk on the
specific motivational factors, barriers to staff motivation and the theories
on employees’ motivation. The experiment conducted involves the
motivation element that generates positive and negative results. The
findings and recommendation of the authors are individual motivations
promote tactic knowledge.

Sources:
(6 points)
The first source for the article is the research survey from two companies.
Different companies filled out a survey form covering issues on
motivations; anticipated intrinsic and extrinsic rewards. It involved
employees and the management. The second source is the Knowledge
Management Research Center at the Korea Institute of Science and
Technology. The interview with the research team and management
provided data. They also helped in the conduction of experiment and data
analysis
Primary Details (CLO 1)
Thesis:
(6 points)
The following are the research questions:
 What is the impact of individual motivation on staff’s tactic
knowledge?
 What are the impacts of social capital on employees TKS?
The authors used them to develop the thesis statement for the paper. The
findings of the research questions were: social capital positively
motivates employees' TKS and anticipated intrinsic reward impacts TKS.
These are the baseline for the thesis. The thesis was also the solution to