Leader Narcissism and Employee Knowledge Management Behavior: The Roles of Employees' Trust in Management and Power Distance Orientation

The current literature is becoming increasingly interested in employee management behavior. In this article, we focus on how leader narcissism affects employees' knowledge management behavior, including knowledge sharing, knowledge hiding, and knowledge manipulation. The questionnaire was admin...

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Published inJournal of global information management Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 1 - 15
Main Authors Zheng, Ruyi, Chen, Gary, Li, Jie
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hershey IGI Global 09.08.2024
Subjects
Employee behavior
Hypotheses
Information management
Knowledge management
Knowledge sharing
Narcissism
Personnel management
Questionnaires
Trust
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Summary:The current literature is becoming increasingly interested in employee management behavior. In this article, we focus on how leader narcissism affects employees' knowledge management behavior, including knowledge sharing, knowledge hiding, and knowledge manipulation. The questionnaire was administered to 260 employees in mainland China to test our hypothesis. Results showed that leader narcissism is significantly related to employee knowledge management behaviors. Specifically, leader narcissism is negatively related to employee knowledge sharing, and is positively related to employee knowledge hiding and manipulating. Employee trust in management mediates these relationships, and power distance orientation moderates the relationship between leader narcissism and employees' trust in management. Our study discusses theoretical and practical implications.
ISSN:1062-7375
1533-7995
DOI:10.4018/JGIM.351158