An Investigation of Environmental Factors That Influence Knowledge Transfer in the Air Force

By Darin A Ladd

his research asked the following question: is there a correlation between types of organizational culture and factors influencing knowledge transfer? It hypothesized that organizations scoring high on the cultural factors of openness to change/innovation, and task-oriented organizational growth would be fertile to knowledge transfer. Second, it hypothesized that organizations scoring high on the factors of bureaucratic and Competition/confrontation would be infertile to knowledge transfer. The research looked at Air Force squadrons, surveying a representative sample of the 1,495 active-duty squadrons included in the study with a 62- item, 5-point Likert-type instrument. Overall, 51 squadrons were surveyed, and 22 produced usable results. Both squadron and individual results were analyzed--and both were similar. Squadron results showed that organizations scoring high on the factors of openness to change/innovation and task-oriented organizational growth appeared to score consistently high on three of the four measures of fertility to knowledge transfer. Organizations scoring high on the factors of competition/confrontation appeared to score consistently low on three of the four measures of fertility to knowledge transfer. The factor bureaucratic produced no significant correlations.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1249831598
• ISBN13: 9781249831594
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Biblioscholar
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"