Drawing on studies of person-team fit and theory of team-member exchange, we examined the effect of fit versus misfit between a team member’s conscientiousness and his/her team’s composition of conscientiousness on the member’s knowledge sharing. We hypothesized that person-team conscientiousness fit would lead to more knowledge sharing because a member who fits his/her team with respect to conscientiousness tends to have similar achievement striving with the team and low exchange cost. Using the method of polynomial regression in two studies in different regions and research settings, we obtained consistent results that person-team conscientiousness fit is positively associated with a team member’s knowledge sharing. We further found that internal team environment moderates the relationship between person-team conscientiousness fit and knowledge sharing such that it makes the relationship weaker. Our study demonstrated that to better understand the effect of personality on knowledge sharing in teams, it is beneficial to simultaneously consider the interplay among member personality, team personality, and team contexts.

基于对人团队适应性和团队成员交换理论的研究，我们研究了团队成员的良心态度及其团队的认真程度构成对成员知识共享的适合与不适合的影响。我们假设个人团队的尽职调查会导致更多的知识共享，因为在尽职调查方面适合自己团队的成员往往会在团队中取得相似的成就，并且交换成本较低。在不同地区和不同研究环境的两项研究中使用多项式回归的方法，我们获得了一致的结果，即人与团队的诚心程度与团队成员的知识共享呈正相关。我们还发现，内部团队环境可以缓和人与团队之间的责任心契合度和知识共享之间的关系，从而使这种关系变弱。我们的研究表明，要更好地理解个性对团队知识共享的影响，同时考虑成员个性，团队个性和团队环境之间的相互作用是有益的。