THE EFFECT OF HIGH PERFORMANCE HR PRACTICES ON KNOWLEDGE SHARING BEHAVIOR: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT

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Since Bangladesh has been experiencing a rapid expansion of higher education institutions (HEIs), particularly in private sector, there has been a rising concern with regards to their quality of research and education. The evidences highlight that there is a lack of academic research, lack of knowledge and experiences, and poor quality of teaching in these institutions. Scholars argue that enhancing knowledge sharing practices among the faculty members can serve as a powerful lever for improving academic research and quality of education. However, literature shows that faculty members are usually less inclined to share knowledge voluntarily with their colleagues. Therefore, it is important to explore the factors that may stimulate knowledge sharing among the faculty members in the HEIs. Accordingly, this paper attempts to develop a conceptual framework that introduces employee engagement as a mediator in the relationship between high performance HR practices (HPHRPs) and knowledge sharing among the faculty members serving in the private universities in Bangladesh.

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THE EFFECT OF HIGH PERFORMANCE HR PRACTICES ON KNOWLEDGE
SHARING BEHAVIOR: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
Dewan Niamul Karim*
School of Business Management
College of Business
Universiti Utara Malaysia
emailtoniamul@gmail.com
Abdul Halim Abdul Majid
School of Business Management
College of Business
Universiti Utara Malaysia
ahalim@uum.edu.my
*Corresponding author: emailtoniamul@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Since Bangladesh has been experiencing a rapid expansion of higher education institutions
(HEIs), particularly in private sector, there has been a rising concern with regards to their
quality of research and education. The evidences highlight that there is a lack of academic
research, lack of knowledge and experiences, and poor quality of teaching in these institutions.
Scholars argue that enhancing knowledge sharing practices among the faculty members can
serve as a powerful lever for improving academic research and quality of education. However,
literature shows that faculty members are usually less inclined to share knowledge voluntarily
with their colleagues. Therefore, it is important to explore the factors that may stimulate
knowledge sharing among the faculty members in the HEIs. Accordingly, this paper attempts to
develop a conceptual framework that introduces employee engagement as a mediator in the
relationship between high performance HR practices (HPHRPs) and knowledge sharing among
the faculty members serving in the private universities in Bangladesh.
Keywords: high performance HR practices (HPHRPs), knowledge management (KM),
knowledge sharing, knowledge sharing behavior (KSB), employee engagement
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Higher education institutions (HEIs) are the hubs of knowledge creation and dissemination; and
a significant way of doing so is knowledge sharing (Buckley, 2012). Promoting a culture of
knowledge sharing, especially among the faculty members, is crucial for creating a culture of
learning, collaborative research, knowledge creation, innovation, and academic excellence in
HEIs (Buckley, 2012; Tan, 2016). Therefore, it is quite reasonable that universities would
undertake a proactive approach to ensure that their academics actively engage in knowledge
sharing (Fullwood, Rowley, & Delbridge, 2013).

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However, it seems that knowledge sharing among the faculty members is hardly prevailing in the
HEIs these days (Ali, Gohneim, & Roubaie, 2014; Chalak, Ziaei, & Nafei, 2014; Ramayah,
Yeap, & Ignatius, 2013). In particular, academics are reluctant to share knowledge voluntarily
with their colleagues (Norulkamar & Hatamleh, 2014; Santosh & Panda, 2016; Tan, 2016).
Moreover, knowledge hoarding, an opposite to knowledge sharing, is a serious concern in
organizations like academic institutions (Alsuraihi, Yaghi, & Nassuora, 2016; Cheng, Ho, &
Lau, 2009; Muqadas et al., 2017; Ramayah et al., 2013; Santosh & Panda, 2016). Literature
indicates that the lack of knowledge sharing also prevails among the faculty members in
universities in Bangladesh (Islam, Ikeda, & Islam, 2013). Therefore, scholars are increasingly
getting interested to explore how to expedite knowledge sharing among the academics of HEIs
(Fullwood et al., 2013; Shahzadi, Hameed, & Kashif, 2015; Tahir, Musah, Abdullah,
Musta’amal, & Abdullah, 2016; Tan, 2016).
In particular, expediting knowledge sharing in HEIs in Bangladesh is crucial as the government
in its Vision 2021 puts utmost importance on transforming the country’s HEIs into centers of
learning, research, and academic excellence (The Banglagesh Planning Commission, 2010). As a
matter of fact, Bangladesh has mainly been experiencing a rapid growth of HEIs, especially in
private sector (University Grants Commission of Bangladesh, 2017). However, it is frequently
alleged that these institutions suffer from the lack of quality teaching, learning, academic
research, and supportive environment (Blanco Ramírez & Jahirul Haque, 2016; Hossain, 2016;
Huq, Huque, & Banik, 2016; Kitamura, 2015). Enhancing knowledge sharing at these
institutions might be a probable mechanism in order to get rid of the present situation and move
forward to the realization of the Vision 2021.
Scholars argue that an organization’s HRM practices, if managed effectively, are in an ideal
position for developing a favorable organizational climate that stimulates desired employee
behaviors including that of knowledge sharing (Llopis & Foss, 2016). Accordingly, HRM
practices are gradually being recognized as essential organizational factor for promoting
knowledge sharing behavior of academic staff (Jyoti, Rani, & Gandotra, 2015; Runhaar &
Sanders, 2016). However, the effect of HRM practices on knowledge sharing behavior is not
straightforward which, in turn, results in need for the resolving the ‘black box’ or mediating
mechanisms (Aklamanu, Degbey, & Tarba, 2016; Andreeva & Sergeeva, 2016). Past studies
indicate that employee engagement may serve as a mediating mechanism in the relationship
between HRM practices and knowledge sharing behavior of the academics of the HEIs. Relying
on extensive review of literature, the paper intends to conceptualize the relationship among the
variables which can suitably be explained by the social exchange theory (SET). However, the
paper focuses on knowledge sharing behavior of the faculty members of the private universities
because these institutions, in contrary to public universities, vary in terms of the extent and types
of HRM practices used. Each private university has separate HRM policies and practices decided
by its top authority. Conversely, the paper keeps the public universities out of focus as they
follow almost similar HRM practices largely decided by the government. However, finally, a
conceptual model and the future direction of research have been proposed.

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2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Description of Variables
2.1.1 High Performance HR Practices
The universalistic notion of HRM posits that there are certain HRM practices which are always
better than the others and are likely to be universally effective and are favorably associated with
organizational outcomes irrespective of the contexts (Flores, Posthuma, & Campion, 2016;
Kundu, Kundu, Gahlawat, & Gahlawat, 2016; Lai, Saridakis, & Johnstone, 2016). These HRM
practices are usually labeled as ‘best practices’ or ‘high performance HR practices (HPHRPs)’
(Ma, Long, Zhang, Zhang, & Lam, 2017). These practices are also known as ‘high performance
work practices (HPWPs)’, ‘high commitment HR practices (HCHRPs)’, and ‘high involvement
HR practices (HIHRPs)’ (Giauque, Anderfuhren-Biget, & Varone, 2013; Jyoti et al., 2015; Ma et
al., 2017). In general, HPHRPs refer to a set of HRM practices designed to promote employees’
ability, motivation, and opportunity to use the ability and motivation, which in turn lead to
favorable employee and organizational outcomes (Flores et al., 2016; Karatepe, Karatepe,
Olugbade, & Olugbade, 2016; Ma et al., 2017). However, due to the lack of consensus regarding
what constitutes best HRM practices or HPHRPs (Jyoti et al., 2015; Latorre, Guest, Ramos, &
Gracia, 2016; Ogbonnaya & Valizade, 2016), the paper includes selective staffing, extensive
training, job security, promotion opportunity, compensation, performance appraisal, autonomous
job design, and participation which have been widely used in previous studies (Aktharsha &
Sengottuvel, 2016; Boxall, Hutchison, & Wassenaar, 2015; Dhar, 2015; Jyoti et al., 2015;
Karatepe & Vatankhah, 2015; Ma et al., 2017; Mostafa, 2016; Mostafa, Gould‐Williams, &
Bottomley, 2015; Schopman, Kalshoven, & Boon, 2017; Sikora, Ferris, & Van Iddekinge, 2015).
Out of them, selective staffing and extensive training are effective for improving employees’
skills and abilities (Delery & Gupta, 2016); promotion opportunity, compensation, job security,
and performance appraisals are useful for motivating them (Aklamanu et al., 2016; Chowhan,
Pries, & Mann, 2017); and autonomous work design and participation are effective in facilitating
the employees the opportunities to utilize their acquired skills and abilities (Aklamanu et al.,
2016; Mostafa, 2016).
2.1.2 Knowledge Sharing Behavior
Knowledge, as postulated by the knowledge-based view, is the most important strategic resource
among all the probable resources an organization may possess (Agarwal & Marouf, 2014; Chen
et al., 2016; Nieves & Haller, 2014). Due to the importance of knowledge in the organizations,
the concept ‘knowledge management’ emerges in the mid-1980s and gains much interest in
managerial and academic fields since 1990s (Oliva, 2014; Schmitz, Rebelo, Gracia, & Tomás,
2014). Knowledge management (KM) refers to “the process of capturing, sharing, developing,
and using the knowledge efficiently” (Navimipour & Charband, 2016, p. 730). However, among
all the activities of KM, knowledge sharing is acknowledged as the central and most vital part
(Asrar-ul-Haq & Anwar, 2016; Edwards, 2017; Wang, Sharma, & Cao, 2016). Therefore,
scholars are paying particular attention on how to promote employees’ knowledge sharing
behavior in the organizations (Aklamanu et al., 2016; Kettinger, Li, Davis, & Kettinger, 2015;
Pervaiz, Imran, Arshad, Haq, & Khan, 2016; Tan, 2016).
In general, knowledge sharing behavior (KSB) facilitates the exchange and application of
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individual employees in the organization (Wang et al., 2016), and thereby transforms individual
knowledge into a precious organizational asset (Islam et al., 2013). KSB can take place at the
individual, group, departmental, or organizational level (Yi, 2009). However, knowledge sharing
usually originates from the individual level (Yeo & Gold, 2014). In addition, scholars generally
view KSB as either unidirectional (i.e., disseminating knowledge) or bidirectional (i.e.,
disseminating and collecting knowledge) (Hussein et al., 2016). Moreover, organizational
knowledge comprises of explicit knowledge (e.g., information) and tacit knowledge (e.g.,
experiences and insights embedded in individuals) (Loebbecke, van Fenema, & Powell, 2016;
Mat, Alias, & Muslim, 2016). The paper focuses on sharing of both tacit and explicit knowledge
at individual level within the organization and considers it as unidirectional. Accordingly, KSB
is defined as the individual behavior of disseminating one’s job-related knowledge voluntarily,
either tacit or explicit, to other members in the organization (Wang & Noe, 2010; Yi, 2009).
2.1.3 Employee Engagement
In recent years, research has shown dramatic interest in employee engagement due to its strong
contribution to employee and organizational outcomes (Bailey, Madden, Alfes, & Fletcher,
2017; Eldor & Vigoda-Gadot, 2017; Kang & Sung, 2017; Karatepe et al., 2016). However,
academic interest in employee engagement emerges from Kahn’s (1990) seminal work on
personal engagement (Carter, Nesbit, Badham, Parker, & Sung, 2016; Ruck, Welch, & Menara,
2017) in which employee engagement is defined as “the simultaneous employment and
expression of a person's ‘preferred self’ in task behaviors that promote connections to work and
to others, personal presence behaviors that promote connections to work and to others, personal
presence (physical, cognitive, emotional), and active, full role performances” (Kahn, 1990, p.
700). Later on, Schaufeli, Bakker, and Salanova (2006, p. 702) defines employee engagement as
“a positive, fulfilling work-related state of mind that is characterized by vigor, dedication, and
absorption”. In this regard, vigor is reflected in the high level of energy, mental resilience,
willingness, and persistence while working even at the time of difficulties. Dedication means an
employee’s strong involvement in his/her work and having a sense of enthusiasm, inspiration,
significance, and pride. Finally, absorption refers to an employee’s full concentration and
happily engrossment in his/her work, whereby time passes fast and it becomes hard for one to
detach him/herself from work. In general, employee engagement is defined as “an active,
fulfilling and work-related state of mind that includes a strong identification with the
organization and self-expression” (Eldor & Vigoda-Gadot, 2017, p. 526). This paper uses the
terms ‘employee engagement’ and ‘work engagement’ interchangeably.
2.2 High Performance HR Practices and Knowledge Sharing
Recently, scholars are increasingly putting their attention on the organizational factors in order to
promote employees’ knowledge sharing behavior (Carmeli & Paulus, 2015; Foss, Pedersen,
Reinholt Fosgaard, & Stea, 2015; Lee, Shiue, & Chen, 2016; Li, Shang, Liu, & Xi, 2014; Ma et
al., 2017). Particularly, scholars are paying attention to HRM practices that can elevate
employees’ motivation, abilities, and opportunities concerning knowledge management and
knowledge sharing (Aklamanu et al., 2016; Iqbal, Toulson, & Tweed, 2016; Ma et al., 2017;
Pervaiz et al., 2016).
In fact, scholars recognize effective use of HRM practices as a significant means of creating a
positive impact on employees’ perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors towards successful

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knowledge sharing (Abdul-Jalal, Toulson, & Tweed, 2013; Aklamanu et al., 2016). In particular,
selective staffing emphasizes hiring people with adequate skills and competencies which are
prerequisite for successful sharing knowledge (Abdul-Jalal et al., 2013). Moreover, selecting
right people through the appropriate process indicates that the organization values its people,
which may induce positive employee attitudes beneficial to the organization, thus may stimulate
KSB (Kim & Ko, 2014). Training itself is a formal mechanism for sharing knowledge because
training courses not only equip the employees with enhanced skills and abilities to share
knowledge, but also offer an opportunity for doing so (Chen, Chang, Tseng, Chen, & Chang,
2013). High job security reflects an indication of the employer’s long-term investment and trust
in its employees (De Meulenaere, Boone, & Buyl, 2016), which may induce them to reciprocate
with discretionary behaviors including KSB (Kim & Ko, 2014; McClean & Collins, 2011).
Promotion opportunity serves as a means of stimulating employees’ sense of belongingness,
long-term attachment and commitment to the organization (Rubel & Kee, 2015), which in turn
may promote KSB (Li, Zhang, Zhang, & Zhou, 2017). Compensation is one of the important
organizational means of promoting employee motivation (Lee, Raschke, & Louis, 2016).
Performance appraisal with effective feedback system promotes a supportive work environment
that facilitates employees to express their ideas and knowledge freely (Ma et al., 2017).
Employees with high job autonomy will be more intrinsically motivated towards engaging in the
behaviors of their choices such as sharing knowledge (Tangaraja, Mohd Rasdi, Ismail, & Samah,
2015). Employee participation directly facilitates sharing an employee’s thoughts, feelings, and
ideas with others in the organization (Yoerger, Crowe, & Allen, 2015). Moreover, employee
participation promotes a sense of belongingness, healthy relations among employees, and
commitment to the organization (Alsughayir, 2016), and thus may stimulate discretionary
behaviors including KSB (Li et al., 2017).
Moreover, according to social exchange view, HRM practices can provide a positive signal to
the employees that the organization is concerned for their well-being and desires to establish
long-term relationship with them (Gould-Williams, 2016). In return, employees are expected to
exhibit positive attitudes and behaviors including KSB (Kim & Ko, 2014). In fact, several
scholars have tested the effect of HRM practices on knowledge sharing behavior (Flinchbaugh,
Li, Luth, & Chadwick, 2016; Kim & Ko, 2014; Manafi & Subramaniam, 2015; Mustafa,
Lundmark, & Ramos, 2016; Mustafa, Richards, & Ramos, 2013; Pervaiz et al., 2016). The
findings of these studies indicate that HRM practices are significant predictors of KSB.
Therefore, the paper assumes that HPHRPs will promote KSB among the faculty members in the
HEIs.
2.3 High Performance HR Practices and Employee Engagement
Employee engagement is being increasingly recognized as the ‘new best friend’ of HRM,
especially in the mechanism through which HRM practices lead to promoting individual and
organizational outcomes (Huang, Ma, & Meng, 2017; Truss, Shantz, Soane, Alfes, & Delbridge,
2013). In fact, scholars are gradually recognizing HRM practices as important levers for
stimulating employee engagement (Akhtar, Nawaz, Mahmood, & Shahid, 2016; Aybas & Acar,
2017; Huang et al., 2017; Presbitero, 2017; Ugwu, 2017). According to the social exchange
view, effective HRM practices are deemed as the organization’s commitment towards the
employees who are supposed to reciprocate with increased commitment and engagement (Garg,
2015). In fact, HPHRPs can convey a positive signal to the employees by enriching their jobs,

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improving their skills and abilities, enhancing their motivation, and promoting participative
decision-making, which in turn will stimulate them to reciprocate with greater level of employee
engagement and commitment (Aybas & Acar, 2017; Huang et al., 2017). Indeed, several studies
confirm that HPHRPs can significantly boost up employee engagement (Akhtar et al., 2016;
Alfes, Shantz, Truss, & Soane, 2013; Alfes, Truss, Soane, Rees, & Gatenby, 2013; Aybas &
Acar, 2017; Boon & Kalshoven, 2014; Cooke, Cooper, Bartram, Wang, & Mei, 2016; Garg,
2015; Garg & Sharma, 2015; Karatepe, 2013; Karatepe et al., 2016; Muduli, Verma, & Datta,
2016; Nawaz, Hassan, Hassan, Shukat, & Asadullah, 2014; Presbitero, 2017; Sattar, Ahmad, &
Hassan, 2015; Ugwu, 2017). Therefore, it is assumed that if HEIs employ HPHRPs, they will be
able to simulate the level of engagement of their faculty members.
2.4 Employee Engagement and Knowledge Sharing
Very recently, scholars have started to shed light on the role of employee engagement on
promoting knowledge sharing behavior (Kim & Park, 2017; Tamta & Rao, 2017; Tanaka, 2016).
Since engaged employees are enthusiastic and dedicated to their work, they are more likely to
share their work-related expertise and ideas with their co-workers (Kim & Park, 2017).
Moreover, spontaneous KSB is regarded as a sort of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB)
(Chang & Chuang, 2011; Fang & Chiu, 2010). Accordingly, employee engagement is likely to
enhance knowledge sharing behavior, since greater sense of engagement enhances OCB
(Demerouti, Bakker, & Gevers, 2015; Matta, Scott, Koopman, & Conlon, 2015; Zhang, Guo, &
Newman, 2017). In addition, Chen, Zhang, and Vogel (2011) argue that employee engagement
can be an essential forecaster of KSB due to the fact that engaging in tasks is likely to facilitate
the employees to share task-related knowledge proactively with other employees. In fact, several
studies discover that employee engagement is favorably associated with KSB (Chen et al., 2011;
Kim & Park, 2017; Tamta & Rao, 2017). Moreover, employee engagement is found to
significantly promote positive attitude towards knowledge sharing (Tanaka, 2016). Therefore, it
is assumed that faculty members with greater work engagement will put extra effort into sharing
their job-related knowledge with their colleagues.
3.0 PROPOSED RESEARCH FRAMEWORK
The following research framework has been proposed based on the literature that portrays that
HPHRPs have a direct positive influence on knowledge sharing behavior. Moreover, HPHRPs
have an indirect positive influence on knowledge sharing behavior though employee
engagement. It is expected that HPHRPs will serve as a bundle of HRM practices in order to
create synergic effect on the employee outcomes.

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4.0 PROSPOSITION TESTING
Based on the proposed research framework, the paper presents the following propositions that
should empirically be tested in future research.
Proposition 1: High performance HR practices will be positively related to employee
engagement.
Proposition 2: High performance HR practices will be positively related to employees’ individual
knowledge sharing behavior.
Proposition 3: Employee engagement will be positively related to employees’ individual
knowledge sharing behavior.
Proposition 4: Employee engagement will mediate the positive relationship between high
performance HR practices and employees’ individual knowledge sharing behavior.
5.0 CONCLUSION
The growth and prosperity of a HEI mainly arise from the knowledge of its academics; hence,
it’s imperative to stimulate and foster knowledge sharing among them (Skaik & Othman, 2016).
In fact, effective knowledge sharing among academics is critical to strategic planning, quality of
academic programs, curriculum development, quality of teaching, interdisciplinary research, and
competitiveness of HEIs (Howell & Annansingh, 2013). However, it is found that faculty
members are usually reluctant to share knowledge voluntarily with each other. Therefore,
universities should undertake organizational initiatives for improving knowledge sharing
practices among the faculty members. In this regards, HPHRPs have already been proven
Figure 1
Proposed Research Framework
(+) (+)
High Performance HR
Practices
 Selective Staffing
 Extensive Training
 Job Security
 Promotion Opportunity
 Compensation
 Performance Appraisal
 Autonomous Job
Design, and
 Participation
Employee
Engagement
Knowledge
Sharing
Behavior

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effective as organizational factor for stimulating knowledge sharing practices in the organization.
However, employee engagement seems to play an important mediating role with respect to the
relationship between HPHRPs and individual knowledge sharing behavior. Accordingly, the
paper presents a conceptual research framework which should be justified in future empirical
studies.
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