Khan Muhammad Arsalan, Malik Omer Farooq, Shahzad Asif
Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Park Road, Tarlai Kalan, Islamabad 45550, Pakistan.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2022 Jan 26;12(2):25. doi: 10.3390/bs12020025.
This study aims to examine how social undermining restrains employee creativity. Specifically, an attempt is made to investigate the serial mediating role of interpersonal distrust and knowledge hiding in the relationship between social undermining and employee creativity. This study used purposive sampling to draw 309 employees from the advertising agencies of Pakistan. We used a time-lagged research design to collect the data on the measures at three different points in time. A self-administered questionnaire was used for the collection of data. We followed variance-based structural equation modeling (SEM) to conduct the data analysis in SmartPLS. Our study results indicated a significant negative association between social undermining and employee creativity, while serial mediation analysis showed that interpersonal distrust and knowledge hiding partially mediated the above linkage. This study's findings contribute to the literature on employee creativity by identifying and testing social undermining as an interpersonal inhibitor factor that impairs employee creativity, and this relationship is serially mediated by interpersonal distrust and knowledge hiding. This study offers valuable insights for the managers of advertising agencies.
本研究旨在探讨社会破坏行为如何抑制员工创造力。具体而言，试图考察人际不信任和知识隐藏在社会破坏行为与员工创造力关系中的序列中介作用。本研究采用目的抽样法，从巴基斯坦广告公司抽取了309名员工。我们采用时间滞后研究设计，在三个不同时间点收集各测量指标的数据。通过自填式问卷收集数据。我们遵循基于方差的结构方程模型（SEM）在SmartPLS中进行数据分析。研究结果表明，社会破坏行为与员工创造力之间存在显著的负相关，而序列中介分析表明，人际不信任和知识隐藏部分中介了上述联系。本研究的发现通过识别和检验社会破坏行为作为损害员工创造力的人际抑制因素，为员工创造力的文献做出了贡献，并且这种关系由人际不信任和知识隐藏进行序列中介。本研究为广告公司的管理者提供了有价值的见解。
