Xia Zhichen, Yang Fan
Normal College, Changshu Institute of Technology, Changshu, China.
School of Education, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Front Psychol. 2020 Nov 9;11:581236. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.581236. eCollection 2020.
This study adopts the social learning theory to explain how and when ethical leadership can predict knowledge sharing in the context of Chinese higher education. We collected two-wave data from 302 postgraduate students from 38 scientific research teams in Chinese universities. The results of this study show that ethical leadership has a direct and positive effect on knowledge sharing, and prosocial motivation fully mediates this relationship. Moreover, the boundary conditions for such effects have affirmed the positive effects of dutifulness and the adverse effects of achievement-striving on the relationship between prosocial motivation and knowledge sharing. The indirect effects of ethical leadership on knowledge sharing are stronger when dutifulness is high and achievement-striving is low. Several theoretical and practical implications are provided by this study. It suggests that the role of prosocial motivation, in tandem with the two facets of conscientiousness, deserves to be highlighted when studying knowledge sharing behavior in correlation with ethical leadership.
本研究采用社会学习理论来解释在中国高等教育背景下，道德领导力如何以及何时能够预测知识共享。我们从中国大学38个科研团队的302名研究生中收集了两波数据。本研究结果表明，道德领导力对知识共享具有直接的正向影响，亲社会动机完全中介了这种关系。此外，这种影响的边界条件证实了尽责性的正向影响以及成就动机对亲社会动机与知识共享之间关系的负向影响。当尽责性高而成就动机低时，道德领导力对知识共享的间接影响更强。本研究提出了若干理论和实践意义。研究表明，在研究与道德领导力相关的知识共享行为时，亲社会动机与尽责性两个方面的作用值得凸显。
