Knowledge hide and seek: Role of ethical leadership, self-enhancement and job-involvement

Upasna A Agarwal, Megha Gupta and Fang Lee Cooke

Journal of Business Research, 2022, vol. 141, issue C, 770-781

Abstract: This paper tests the mediating role of knowledge hiding in the ethical leadership–employee well-being relationship. The moderated mediation examines the impact of individual characteristics (self-enhancement motives and job involvement) on employee well-being through knowledge hiding. The hypotheses are supported by multi-source data collected at two points from 410 employee and co-worker dyads from emerging Indian multinational enterprises. Results reveal that ethical leadership reduces knowledge hiding behavior, which, in turn, strengthens the well-being of employees. Individual characteristics moderate this relationship such that the negative impact of ethical leadership on knowledge hiding is more pronounced when self-enhancement motives and job involvement are high. Finally, the moderated mediation suggests that individual characteristics act as catalysts and ameliorate the indirect negative impact of ethical leadership on employee well-being through knowledge hiding.

Keywords: Knowledge hiding; Ethical leadership; Self-enhancement motive; Job involvement; Employee well-being; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.11.074

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