Impact of Ethical Leadership on Knowledge Hiding Behavior: Moderating role of Islamic Work Ethics and Mediating role of Interpersonal Justice
Abstract
This study adds to the business ethics and knowledge-hiding domain such that how ethical leadership impacts knowledge-hiding behavior amidst interpersonal justice as well as how Islamic work ethics invigorated interpersonal justice and knowledge-hiding. We argue that ethical leadership will trigger interpersonal justice and lessen knowledge-hiding behavior. We further, explored that IWE will weaker the link between interpersonal justice and knowledge-hiding behavior. A multi-wave and multi-context survey comprising 348 employees supported the study hypotheses. The obtained results indicated that ethical leadership is inversely associated with knowledge-hiding behavior, and the said link is mediated via interpersonal justice. Further, employees higher on IWE confirmed the moderating effect. For business ethics and the knowledge-hiding domain, we unveiled important mediator and moderator that buffer the knowledge-hiding behavior. For organizations, the results demonstrate that interpersonal justice and IWE help employees to involve in positive behavior and mitigate the deviant behavior.
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