Successful Skill Transfer: Military Service Experience and Company Performance

• Main Author: Muhammed Kürşad Özlen
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Academic Publishing House Researcher 2014-07-01
• Series: Evropejskij Issledovatelʹ
• Subjects: military service experience; skill transfer; motivation; organizational performance; survey
• Online Access: http://www.erjournal.ru/journals_n/1407049376.pdf

In today’s business life, employees from different sectors have the opportunity to work in other industries and can have different positions through the organization. This can be considered from the perspective of skill transfer (transfer of tacit knowledge). The success can be questioned in terms of company performance. If this process can be managed well performance will be higher. This research mainly aims to identify whether veterans with military service experience can contribute to employee motivation, organizational motivation and organizational benefits. In order to test the assumed associations, the research employs a survey study on the veterans who have served for Bosnian army and are currently employees of Bosnian firms. The results provide that military service experience is significantly influential on the motivations of employees and organizations and on company performance. It can be suggested that the adaptation of external knowledge (skill transfer), military service experience, into new organizational environment can be enhanced by the help of knowledge management. This research is valuable in that it is among the few studies in its respective field and in the region.