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Negative Work Attitudes and Task Performance: Mediating Role of Knowledge Hiding and Moderating Role of Servant Leadership.
Front Psychol. 2022; 13:963696.FP

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global crisis that particularly hit employment globally. Due to the economic crisis, many small businesses attempted to minimise their expenses by either closing or downsizing. During such organisational situations, the employees face negative workplace attitudes that lead to knowledge hiding and affect team performance. This study examines negative attitudes and their effect on team performance. Further, this study examines the mediating effect of knowledge hiding and moderating the role of servant leadership. Through a multi-time data collection approach, the authors obtained 363 responses from the education sector in China during the COVID-19 pandemic. PROCESS Hayes model 1 and 4 were used for mediation and moderation analysis. Results show that job insecurity, cynicism, and role stress are significant forces behind knowledge-hiding behaviour. Furthermore, the knowledge hiding behaviour adversely affects task performance. Servant leadership shows a buffering effect on knowledge hiding behaviour caused by negative workplace attitudes. This is one of the first studies in the South Asian environment to examine the association between employees' negative attitudes and task performance using knowledge hiding as a mediator and servant leadership as a moderator in the COVID-19 scenario. Lastly, the paper concludes with a consideration of its theoretical, practical implication and future direction.

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Tian Z
School of Management, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, Guangzhou, China.
Tang C
School of Management, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, Guangzhou, China.
Akram F
Department of Business Administration, University of Prince Mugrin, Madina, Saudi Arabia.
Khan ML
Global College of Engineering and Technology, Muscat, Oman.
Chuadhry MA
Department of Management Science, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad, Pakistan.

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eng

PubMed ID

35959060

Citation

Tian, Zailan, et al. "Negative Work Attitudes and Task Performance: Mediating Role of Knowledge Hiding and Moderating Role of Servant Leadership." Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 13, 2022, p. 963696.
Tian Z, Tang C, Akram F, et al. Negative Work Attitudes and Task Performance: Mediating Role of Knowledge Hiding and Moderating Role of Servant Leadership. Front Psychol. 2022;13:963696.
Tian, Z., Tang, C., Akram, F., Khan, M. L., & Chuadhry, M. A. (2022). Negative Work Attitudes and Task Performance: Mediating Role of Knowledge Hiding and Moderating Role of Servant Leadership. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 963696. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.963696
Tian Z, et al. Negative Work Attitudes and Task Performance: Mediating Role of Knowledge Hiding and Moderating Role of Servant Leadership. Front Psychol. 2022;13:963696. PubMed PMID: 35959060.
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