Congruence in leaders-subordinates' mindfulness and knowledge hiding: The role of emotional exhaustion and gender similarity.

ABSTRACT: Many scholars have focused on understanding ways of how to suppress knowledge hiding by employees. Existing studies have demonstrated that mindfulness could effectively inhibit employees' knowledge hiding. This study aims to investigate the impact of leader-subordinate mindfulness congruence on subordinate knowledge hiding and its internal mechanisms. Based on the role theory, we collected 169 leadership data and 368 employee data at three time-points through collecting questionnaire of matching leaders and subordinates. In addition, we used polynomial regression and response surface analysis to validate our research hypotheses. The results demonstrated that: (i) Compared with the "high leader-high subordinate" mindfulness congruence condition, subordinates in the "low leader-low subordina

SUBMITTER: Wan J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9650406 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature