Jiang Daokui, Chen Zhuo
Business School, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China.
School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Front Psychol. 2021 Oct 21;12:747873. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.747873. eCollection 2021.
Leadership is generally considered helpful for team knowledge sharing. However, differences in the influence of different leadership styles on team knowledge sharing mechanism is still unclear. To understand different leadership style foster team knowledge sharing, this study focuses on leader-follower trust during team interactions. From the perspective of leadership as social problem solving, we argue that transformational leadership and authoritative leadership are different linked to team knowledge sharing. Through the collection of a sample of 791 valid questionnaires in China, we used the structural equation model to test the theoretical model. Results showed that: (1) Transformational leadership was positively linked to explicit and implicit knowledge sharing, while authoritative leadership was positively linked to explicit knowledge sharing. (2) Trust tendency mediates the relationship between authoritative leadership and knowledge sharing. (3) Supportive and bureaucratic culture moderate the influence of trust tendency on implicit knowledge sharing, such that the positive relationship is stronger for the low-quality of supportive culture and the high-quality of bureaucratic culture. Finally, The study's implication for theory and practice were discussed, its limitations were identified, and directions for future research were suggested.
领导力通常被认为有助于团队知识共享。然而，不同领导风格对团队知识共享机制的影响差异仍不明确。为了理解不同领导风格如何促进团队知识共享，本研究聚焦于团队互动过程中的领导-下属信任。从将领导力视为社会问题解决方式的角度出发，我们认为变革型领导和权威型领导与团队知识共享的关联方式有所不同。通过在中国收集791份有效问卷样本，我们运用结构方程模型对理论模型进行了检验。结果表明：（1）变革型领导与显性和隐性知识共享呈正相关，而权威型领导与显性知识共享呈正相关。（2）信任倾向在权威型领导与知识共享之间起中介作用。（3）支持性文化和官僚文化调节信任倾向对隐性知识共享的影响，使得在支持性文化质量较低和官僚文化质量较高的情况下，这种正向关系更强。最后，讨论了该研究对理论和实践的启示，指出了其局限性，并提出了未来研究的方向。
