Incivility and Knowledge Hiding in Academia: Mediating Role of Interpersonal Distrust and Rumination
Workplace incivility is under investigation for the last three decades, and it holds a central position in organizational behavior literature. However, despite the extensive investigations in the past, there exists a missing link between workplace incivility and knowledge hiding in academia. This st...
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| description | Workplace incivility is under investigation for the last three decades, and it holds a central position in organizational behavior literature. However, despite the extensive investigations in the past, there exists a missing link between workplace incivility and knowledge hiding in academia. This study aims to tap this missing link for which data were collected from the universities staff. Data were collected in two waves to reduce the common method biases. In the first wave, questions were asked from the respondents regarding their demographic characteristics and exposure to workplace incivility. At this stage, 400 questionnaires were floated and 355 completely filled responses were received back, while in the second wave, those respondents were approached for data collection who have completely filled questionnaires in the first wave. The time interval between the two waves was 1 month. In the second wave, questions related to distrust and knowledge hiding behavior were asked from the respondents. At this stage, 323 questionnaires were received back out of which 290 were filled and these were considered for final data analysis. Collected data were analyzed by applying structural equation modeling (SEM) through SmartPLS. Results indicated that employees tend to hide knowledge when they experience incivility at workplace. Moreover, they develop a sense of distrust in response to workplace incivility which further triggers them to hide knowledge. Limitations and future directions are also discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f723c85b507d4c0c960c642060e608072022-12-21T18:44:42ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-01-011210.3389/fpsyg.2021.769282769282Incivility and Knowledge Hiding in Academia: Mediating Role of Interpersonal Distrust and RuminationQingyan Wu0Shahnawaz Saqib1Jianhua Sun2Yuxia Xiao3Wenya Ma4School of Marxism, Shenyang Jianzhu University, Shenyang, ChinaDepartment of Management Sciences, Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, Rahim Yar Khan, PakistanHuman Resource Center, Beijing Huaxia Lihong Commodity Inspection Co., Ltd., Beijing, ChinaSchool of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, ChinaPsychological Science (Conversion), University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United KingdomWorkplace incivility is under investigation for the last three decades, and it holds a central position in organizational behavior literature. However, despite the extensive investigations in the past, there exists a missing link between workplace incivility and knowledge hiding in academia. This study aims to tap this missing link for which data were collected from the universities staff. Data were collected in two waves to reduce the common method biases. In the first wave, questions were asked from the respondents regarding their demographic characteristics and exposure to workplace incivility. At this stage, 400 questionnaires were floated and 355 completely filled responses were received back, while in the second wave, those respondents were approached for data collection who have completely filled questionnaires in the first wave. The time interval between the two waves was 1 month. In the second wave, questions related to distrust and knowledge hiding behavior were asked from the respondents. At this stage, 323 questionnaires were received back out of which 290 were filled and these were considered for final data analysis. Collected data were analyzed by applying structural equation modeling (SEM) through SmartPLS. Results indicated that employees tend to hide knowledge when they experience incivility at workplace. Moreover, they develop a sense of distrust in response to workplace incivility which further triggers them to hide knowledge. Limitations and future directions are also discussed.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.769282/fullworkplace incivilityknowledge hidingdistrustacademiarumination |
| spellingShingle | Qingyan Wu Shahnawaz Saqib Jianhua Sun Yuxia Xiao Wenya Ma Incivility and Knowledge Hiding in Academia: Mediating Role of Interpersonal Distrust and Rumination Frontiers in Psychology workplace incivility knowledge hiding distrust academia rumination |
| title | Incivility and Knowledge Hiding in Academia: Mediating Role of Interpersonal Distrust and Rumination |
| title_full | Incivility and Knowledge Hiding in Academia: Mediating Role of Interpersonal Distrust and Rumination |
| title_fullStr | Incivility and Knowledge Hiding in Academia: Mediating Role of Interpersonal Distrust and Rumination |
| title_full_unstemmed | Incivility and Knowledge Hiding in Academia: Mediating Role of Interpersonal Distrust and Rumination |
| title_short | Incivility and Knowledge Hiding in Academia: Mediating Role of Interpersonal Distrust and Rumination |
| title_sort | incivility and knowledge hiding in academia mediating role of interpersonal distrust and rumination |
| topic | workplace incivility knowledge hiding distrust academia rumination |
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