Investigating the Influence of Employee Trust in Management on Tacit Knowledge through Employees’ Turnover

Abstract

Within the last few decades, there has been an increasing interest in the importance of tacit knowledge in organizations and it has become the focus of considerable attention in the recent literature. However, there are some important barriers which cause negative effect on tacit knowledge such as employee turnover. In this perspective, this review paper concentrates on the potential factors influencing on the employee turnover that eventually leading to tacit knowledge. More closely, this paper considers the impact of employee trust in management on tacit knowledge through the mediating effect of employee turnover. Accordingly, this paper present a conceptual framework for the potential relationships among the variables namely employee trust in management, employee turnover intention, and tacit knowledge.

Key words: employee trust in management, employee turnover intention, tacit knowledge.