WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND: KNOWLEDGE HIDING, PERCEIVED MOTIVATIONAL CLIMATE, AND CREATIVITY

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cerne, Matej; Nerstad, Christina G. L.; Dysvik, Anders; Skerlavaj, Miha
• 署名单位: University of Ljubljana; BI Norwegian Business School; University of Ljubljana
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/amj.2012.0122
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 172-192
• 关键词: INTERRATER RELIABILITY; EMPLOYEE CREATIVITY; ACHIEVEMENT GOALS; REGULATORY FOCUS; WORK-ENVIRONMENT; INNOVATION; NORM; ORGANIZATIONS; metaanalysis; orientation

摘要

Knowledge hiding prevents colleagues from generating creative ideas, but it may also have negative consequences for the creativity of a knowledge hider. Drawing on social exchange theory, we propose that when employees hide knowledge, they trigger a reciprocal distrust loop in which coworkers are unwilling to share knowledge with them. We further suggest that these effects are contingent on motivational climate, in such a way that the negative effects of an individual's hiding knowledge on his/her own creativity are enhanced in a performance climate and attenuated in a mastery climate. A field study of 240 employees nested in 34 groups revealed a negative relationship between knowledge hiding and knowledge hiders' creativity as well as a moderating role of a mastery climate. Study 2 replicated these findings in an experimental study of 132 undergraduate students, testing a reciprocal distrust loop and comparing it with an alternative intrapsychic explanatory process based on situational regulatory focus. Implications for practice and future research are discussed.