Do Morality-Based Individual Differences and Relational Climates Matter? Ethical Leadership and Knowledge Hiding: A Multilevel Framework

Hina Shahid, Shafaq Arif Chaudhry, Furrakh Abbas, Saira Ghulam Hassan and Shoaib Aslam

SAGE Open, 2023, vol. 13, issue 4, 21582440231215569

Abstract: The purpose of the study is to uncover how and when ethical leadership impacts knowledge hiding behavior. First, by examining the individual level morality-based characteristics (moral identity and reflective moral attentiveness) as separate and serial mediators concerning ethical leadership and knowledge hiding (level 1). Second, by investigating the moderating role of team- level relational climates in relation to ethical leadership and knowledge hiding (level 2). Time- lagged design was used to collect data through a structured questionnaire from 300 employees of Information Technology (IT) organizations in Pakistan. Level 1 findings revealed a significant and negative relationship of ethical leadership with knowledge hiding. Follower’s individual level morality-based characteristics served as individual and serial mediators to ethical leadership and knowledge hiding. Level 2 of the study only found the moderating role of team communal sharing climate in relation to ethical leadership and knowledge hiding. The study brings to fore the “morality-based perspective†for understanding knowledge hiding at the workplace.

Keywords: ethical leadership; individual moral characteristics; relational climates; knowledge hiding; social learning theory; social cognitive theory; multi-level modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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