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The effect of workplace ostracism on knowledge sharing: the mediating role of organization-based self-esteem and organizational silence

Mina Takhsha (Department of Management, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran)
Negar Barahimi (Department of Management, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran)
Arash Adelpanah (Department of Management, Shahid Ashrafi Esfahani University, Isfahan, Iran)
Reza Salehzadeh (Department of Management, Shahid Ashrafi Esfahani University, Isfahan, Iran)

Journal of Workplace Learning

ISSN: 1366-5626

Article publication date: 16 July 2020

Issue publication date: 11 August 2020

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Abstract

Purpose

This study aims to evaluate the effect of workplace ostracism on organization-based self-esteem (OBSE), organizational silence and knowledge sharing.

Design/methodology/approach

The statistical population of this research includes the employees of University of Isfahan in Iran. The structural equation modeling method is used to analyze the data and the conceptual model using 130 participants.

Findings

The empirical results suggest that ostracism and organizational silence influence knowledge sharing, negatively. Ostracism influences organizational silence, positively; and ostracism influences OBSE, negatively. Furthermore, organization-based self-esteem influences knowledge sharing, positively. In addition, the indirect relationship from ostracism to knowledge sharing through organizational silence was confirmed; however, the mediating role of OBSE in the relationship between workplace ostracism and knowledge sharing was not confirmed.

Originality/value

This research is among the first to evaluate the relationship between workplace ostracism, knowledge sharing, organizational silence and OBSE simultaneously.

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Citation

Takhsha, M., Barahimi, N., Adelpanah, A. and Salehzadeh, R. (2020), "The effect of workplace ostracism on knowledge sharing: the mediating role of organization-based self-esteem and organizational silence", Journal of Workplace Learning, Vol. 32 No. 6, pp. 417-435. https://doi.org/10.1108/JWL-07-2019-0088

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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