Purpose

Recent scholars have established that knowledge hiding does not equate to the lack of knowledge sharing. Due to a scarcity of papers on knowledge hiding, this paper aims to understand the mechanisms through which ethical leadership influences knowledge hiding based on social learning theory and social cognitive theory.

Design/methodology/approach

The field study involves 243 employees from public listed companies in Malaysia. Partial least square structural equation modelling is used to test the hypothesised relationships.

Findings

The results indicate that moral disengagement mediates the relationship between ethical leadership and knowledge hiding. Furthermore, organisational commitment moderates the negative relationship between ethical leadership and knowledge hiding, such that the negative relationship is stronger when organisational commitment is high.

Originality/value

This study is the first to investigate the influence of ethical leadership on knowledge hiding through the mediating effect of moral disengagement. Moreover, organisational commitment is an important boundary condition for the relationship between ethical leadership and knowledge hiding. The implications for practice and future research are also discussed.

中文翻译：

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道德领导和知识隐藏：测试中介和调节机制

目的

最近的学者已经确定，知识隐藏并不等于缺乏知识共享。由于知识隐藏的论文较少，本文旨在基于社会学习理论和社会认知理论来了解道德领导影响知识隐藏的机制。

设计/方法/方法

实地研究涉及来自马来西亚上市公司的 243 名员工。偏最小二乘结构方程模型用于检验假设关系。

发现

结果表明，道德脱离在道德领导与知识隐藏之间的关系中起中介作用。此外，组织承诺调节了道德领导与知识隐藏之间的负相关关系，当组织承诺高时，负相关关系更强。

原创性/价值

本研究首次通过道德脱离接触的中介效应调查了道德领导对知识隐藏的影响。此外，组织承诺是伦理领导与知识隐藏关系的重要边界条件。还讨论了对实践和未来研究的影响。