EFFECT OF HR DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON EMPLOYEE KNOWLEDGE SHARING: EXAMINING THE MEDIATING ROLE OF TRUST ON LEADERSHIP AND MODERATING ROLE OF COOPERATIVE NORMS

Irfan Raza () and Fouzia Tariq ()
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Irfan Raza: Department of Computer Science, National University of Modern Languages-NUML, Islamabad, Pakistan
Fouzia Tariq: Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

IBT Journal of Business Studies (JBS), 2016, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-20

Abstract: PurposeThis study was aimed at exploring the effect of HR diversity management practices on employees’ knowledge sharing with mediating role of trust on leadership and moderating role of cooperative norms.Methodology Quantitativemethod research design was conducted in the study and data was collected from 4 large organizations of Pakistan for analysis.Convenient sampling technique was applied and sample size for the study was 256.Thirty six Likerttype questions were used to collect responses with á = 0.853.Findings The results demonstrate that HR diversity management has a significant positive effect on employee knowledge sharing.The trust on leadership has a mediating role between HR diversity management and knowledge sharing.Findings also show that cooperative norms have a moderating role between HR diversity management and knowledge sharing cooperative norms also moderate the relationship of trust on leadership and employee knowledge sharing.Practical Implications There are significant academic and practical implications which are briefly described in last part of the study.

Keywords: HR Diversity Management; Trust on Leadership; Cooperative Norms; Knowledge Sharing. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.46745/ilma.ibtjbs.2016.121.1

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