College of Business, Korea University Business School, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
College of Business, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, Republic of Korea.
Front Public Health. 2023 Mar 13;11:1108881. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1108881. eCollection 2023.
As the global economy deteriorates because of the great shocks such as COVID-19 pandemic and wars among nations, the business environment is suffered from uncertainty and risk. To deal with it, several firms have attempted to maximize its efficiency downsizing and restructuring to diminish costs. Thus, the degree of anxiety is increased among employees who worry about the loss of their job. The current research hypothesizes that job insecurity increases employees' knowledge hiding behavior by diminishing the degree of their psychological safety. In other words, psychological safety functions as the underlying process (i.e., mediator) in the job insecurity-knowledge hiding behavior link. Furthermore, this paper tries to examine the boundary condition of how to decrease the detrimental influence of job insecurity, focusing on the moderating effect of servant leadership. Utilizing a 3-wave time-lagged data from 365 Korean employees, we empirically demonstrated that employees who perceive job insecurity are less likely to perceive psychological safety, eventually increasing their knowledge hiding behavior. We also found that servant leadership functions as a positive moderator which buffers the negative impact of job insecurity on psychological safety. Theoretical and practical contributions are described.
由于 COVID-19 大流行和国家间战争等重大冲击导致全球经济恶化，商业环境面临着不确定性和风险。为了应对这一局面，几家公司试图通过裁员和重组来最大程度地提高效率，以降低成本。因此，员工的焦虑程度增加了，他们担心会失去工作。本研究假设，工作不安全感会通过降低员工心理安全感的程度来增加其知识隐藏行为。换句话说，心理安全感是工作不安全感与知识隐藏行为之间的潜在过程（即中介）。此外，本文试图通过检验服务型领导的调节作用来确定如何减少工作不安全感的不利影响的边界条件。我们利用来自 365 名韩国员工的 3 波时间滞后数据进行实证研究，结果表明，感知到工作不安全感的员工不太可能感知到心理安全感，最终会增加他们的知识隐藏行为。我们还发现，服务型领导作为一个积极的调节因素，可以缓冲工作不安全感对心理安全感的负面影响。本文还描述了理论和实践上的贡献。
