Wang Tianjiao, Jiang Cheng, Chen Qiran
Institute of Economics of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Front Psychol. 2022 Jul 27;13:882029. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.882029. eCollection 2022.
While existing studies have explored factors that affect knowledge sharing among employees from different perspectives, there are still research gaps regarding whether health belief affects knowledge sharing among employees, specifically against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how such effects work. Thus, the purpose of this study is to determine the effect of bank employees' health beliefs about COVID-19 on knowledge sharing mediated by their self-efficacy. From the perspective of social cognitive theory and the health belief model, this study investigates whether employees' perception of susceptibility and severity of COVID-19 affects formal as well as informal knowledge sharing through knowledge sharing self-efficacy. A sample of 407 bank employees (200 women and 207 men) in China was used for the study. The formulated hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling and bootstrapping. The results showed that employees' perceived susceptibility to COVID-19 significantly undermines formal and informal knowledge sharing self-efficacy. However, there was no significant difference in the extent of its indirect effects on formal and informal knowledge sharing. Further, employees' perceived severity of COVID-19 had no effect on knowledge sharing self-efficacy and on formal and informal knowledge sharing, which could have resulted from the COVID-19 outbreak in China.
虽然现有研究已从不同角度探讨了影响员工之间知识共享的因素，但关于健康信念是否会影响员工之间的知识共享，特别是在新冠疫情背景下，以及这种影响是如何发挥作用的，仍然存在研究空白。因此，本研究的目的是确定银行员工对新冠疫情的健康信念通过自我效能感对知识共享产生的影响。本研究从社会认知理论和健康信念模型的角度出发，调查员工对新冠疫情易感性和严重性的认知是否通过知识共享自我效能感影响正式和非正式的知识共享。本研究采用了中国407名银行员工（200名女性和207名男性）的样本。使用结构方程模型和自抽样法对所提出的假设进行了检验。结果表明，员工对新冠疫情的感知易感性显著削弱了正式和非正式知识共享的自我效能感。然而，其对正式和非正式知识共享的间接影响程度没有显著差异。此外，员工对新冠疫情严重性的认知对知识共享自我效能感以及正式和非正式知识共享均无影响，这可能是由中国的新冠疫情爆发所致。
