Wang Yiyu, Bari Muhammad Waseem, Shaheen Sadia, Liu Xiaoying
General Graduate School, Dongshin University, Naju 158245, Jeollanam-do, Republic of Korea.
Lyallpur business school, Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Acta Psychol (Amst). 2024 Aug;248:104339. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104339. Epub 2024 Jun 12.
Negative behaviors at the workplace always disturb the management of the firms. This research investigates the link between the dark triad and various types of Knowledge hiding (Evasive hiding, Playing dumb, and Rationalized hiding) in firms. In addition, this study explores perceived organizational politics as a mediator. The design of this study is quantitative and positivist. The data were collected in three waves (45 days gap) with a random sampling approach from 383 personnel/staff working in Chinese commercial banking firms. The data were analyzed using the partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) technique and Smartpls-4 software. This study confirms that dark-triad has a positive relation with knowledge hiding, except psychopathy and Machiavellianism, which have no significant correlation with playing dumb and evasive hiding, respectively. Perceived organizational politics significantly mediate the association between dark triad personality traits and the types of knowledge hiding. Employees with political skills and a trust-based culture can counter the dark-triad personalities and discourage the knowledge-hiding culture. For effective management of knowledge-hiding issues in firms, codifying implicit and explicit Knowledge and developing knowledge repositories can discourage a knowledge-hiding culture.
工作场所中的负面行为总是会干扰公司的管理。本研究调查了黑暗三性格与公司中各种类型的知识隐藏（逃避性隐藏、装傻和合理化隐藏）之间的联系。此外，本研究还探讨了感知到的组织政治作为一种中介变量。本研究的设计是定量的和实证主义的。数据分三轮收集（间隔45天），采用随机抽样方法，从中国商业银行的383名员工中获取。使用偏最小二乘结构方程模型（PLS-SEM）技术和Smartpls-4软件对数据进行分析。本研究证实，黑暗三性格与知识隐藏呈正相关，但精神病态和马基雅维利主义分别与装傻和逃避性隐藏没有显著相关性。感知到的组织政治显著中介了黑暗三性格特质与知识隐藏类型之间的关联。具有政治技能和基于信任的文化的员工可以对抗黑暗三性格，并抑制知识隐藏文化。为了有效管理公司中的知识隐藏问题，编纂隐性和显性知识并开发知识库可以抑制知识隐藏文化。
