Servant Leadership Behavior at Workplace and Knowledge Hoarding: A Moderation Mediation Examination

Servant leadership practice honesty, stewardship, and high moral standards while prioritizing the needs of subordinates. The moral concern of a servant leadership is to support others and put the needs of others first. We investigated the relationship between servant leadership, psychological safety...

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Published inFrontiers in psychology Vol. 13; p. 888761
Main Authors Zada, Shagufta, Khan, Jawad, Saeed, Imran, Jun, Zhang Yong, Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro, Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 04.05.2022
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knowledge hoarding
mastery climate
psychological safety
Psychology
servant leadership
workplace
mastery climate
knowledge hoarding
psychological safety
workplace
servant leadership
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Summary:Servant leadership practice honesty, stewardship, and high moral standards while prioritizing the needs of subordinates. The moral concern of a servant leadership is to support others and put the needs of others first. We investigated the relationship between servant leadership, psychological safety, and knowledge hoarding in accordance with social learning theory in a survey of 347 workers across 56 teams. The results of this study illustrate that servant leadership is negatively associated with knowledge hoarding and positively associated with psychological safety. We also found that a mastery climate moderated the relationship between servant leadership and knowledge hoarding. This study highlights the theoretical and practical implications that contribute to the body of knowledge. It helps organizations that the presence of servant leadership may discourage knowledge hoarding by providing a psychologically safe mastery climate.
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ORCID: Jawad Khan, orcid.org/0000-0002-6673-7617; Alejandro Vega-Muñoz, orcid.org/0000-0002-9427-2044; Nicolás Contreras-Barraza, orcid.org/0000-0001-6729-4398
This article was submitted to Organizational Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology
Edited by: Peixu He, Huaqiao University, China
Reviewed by: Sana Aroos Khattak, Bahria University, Pakistan; Sobia Rashid, National University of Modern Languages, Pakistan; Zhixing Xu, Beijing Normal University, China
ISSN:1664-1078
1664-1078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.888761