A Proposed Model of the Influence of Personality Trait Dimensions on Knowledge Sharing Behaviour

To enhance the understanding of the important role of individual factors toward knowledge sharing in the organizations, this study aims to propose the personality factors that could influence people's willingness to share knowledge and their actual knowledge sharing, behaviour. Based on the theoretical support derived from the big five personality theory, we proposed that the live personality trait dimensions namely agreeableness, openness, neuroticism, extraversion and conscientiousness would influence individuals' willingness to share knowledge and their actual knowledge sharing behaviour. To empirically validate our proposed research model, we suggest that the structural equation modelling using the Amos software could be a suitable technique for future studies that may intend to examine this proposed research model. Researchers can improve this proposed model in different cultural context and could also add other individual factors to suite their study objectives.