Mubarak Namra, Osmadi Atasya, Khan Jabran, Mahdiyar Amir, Riaz Asim
School of Housing Building and Planning, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.
Air University School of Management, Air University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Front Psychol. 2021 Oct 8;12:740880. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.740880. eCollection 2021.
Although numerous studies have been conducted in the field of knowledge sharing with a focus given to its importance, very little attention has been given to knowledge hiding practices. A very few studies have been found to make an attempt to figure out its impact and antecedents. Likewise, the negative role of passive leadership in the project management literature has not been evidenced enough despite its existence in project-based organizations. Both knowledge hiding and passive leadership are the highly neglected areas in the project management literature. Therefore, this study not only attempts to investigate the influence of passive leadership on knowledge hiding but also aims to explore the role of creative self-efficacy between them. IT project organizations were chosen to collect data because of their high failure rate due to an insufficient knowledge transfer. The findings of this study revealed that the neglected passive leadership greatly influences the knowledge hiding practices among individuals. However, according to the results, knowledge hiding practices are found to reduce the presence of creative self-efficacy. Thus, the antecedents of knowledge hiding should be considered to create an innovative and successful business environment. The results are highly significant not only for the field of project management but also for other practitioners.
尽管在知识共享领域已经开展了大量研究，并强调了其重要性，但对知识隐藏行为的关注却很少。仅有极少数研究试图探究其影响和成因。同样，尽管被动领导在项目型组织中存在，但在项目管理文献中其负面作用尚未得到充分证明。知识隐藏和被动领导都是项目管理文献中被高度忽视的领域。因此，本研究不仅试图调查被动领导对知识隐藏的影响，还旨在探索创造性自我效能感在两者之间的作用。选择信息技术项目组织来收集数据，是因为它们因知识转移不足而失败率很高。本研究的结果表明，被忽视的被动领导对个体间的知识隐藏行为有很大影响。然而，根据结果，知识隐藏行为会降低创造性自我效能感的存在。因此，为了营造一个创新且成功的商业环境，应该考虑知识隐藏的成因。这些结果不仅对项目管理领域非常重要，对其他从业者也具有重要意义。
