Investigating the effect of personality factors on team cohesion of employees according to the mediating role of knowledge sharing (Case study: SNOWA company)

Today, due to unforeseen environmental and technological changes, it is necessary to pay attention to savings, increase innovation and flexibility for all types of businesses in order to gain a sustainable competitive advantage. In the meantime, what helps organizations increase their capabilities and meet challenges is creating and nurturing appropriate and effective teams of individuals. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of personality factors on team cohesion of SNOWA employees with regard to the mediating role of knowledge sharing. The study is a descriptive correlational study through structural equation modeling (SEM). SNOWA company was collected in 1399 with a sample size of 278 people and SPSS and AMOS software were used to evaluate the proposed model. The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between four factors of personality (extraversion, agreement, conscientiousness and openness to experience) and knowledge sharing with the team cohesion of employees; But there is no positive and significant relationship between personality factor (neuroticism) and team cohesion of employees. Indirect paths of personality factors are also significant through knowledge sharing with team cohesion in employees. Therefore, it can be said that personality factors along with other factors such as knowledge sharing, play a key role in team cohesion and the need to pay attention to these factors in training programs to strengthen team cohesion is useful.