Workplace conflicts and knowledge hiding: Mediating role of relational psychological contract breach.

ABSTRACT: This study explains workplace conflicts (interpersonal and task-related) as antecedents of knowledge-hiding behaviors. Moreover, a relational psychological contract breach is a mediator between workplace conflicts and knowledge-hiding behavior. For empirical evidence, data were collected from research and development institutions in Pakistan. The results confirm the significant association between conflicts and knowledge-hiding behaviors and the mediating role of relational psychological contract breach. The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of workplace conflicts (interpersonal conflict and task-related conflict) on knowledge-hiding behaviors (evasive hiding, playing dumb, and rationalized hiding). Besides, a relational psychological contract breach is used as a mediato

SUBMITTER: Qiao X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10328843 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature