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A Study On The Influence Of Shared Leadership On Knowledge Hiding

Posted on:2014-04-03Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:T ZhaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2255330392463688Subject:Applied Psychology
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This research discussed shared leadership’s influence on knowledge hiding. Beginning withgetting Chinese edition of knowledge hiding questionnaire by two-way translation, protest andrevise, this research used exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis to build thestructure of knowledge in the Chinese cultures, then explored the shared leadership’s influenceon knowledge hiding with correlation analysis, regression analysis. Finally hierarchicalregression analysis and grouped regression analysis were used to discuss self-efficiency’sintermediary effect on the relationship between shared leadership and knowledge, trust’sintermediary effect on the relationship between shared leadership and knowledge and team size’smediating effects on the relationship between shared leadership and knowledge.The results got from this research were as follow:(1) In the Chinese cultures, the structure of knowledge hiding consisted of two factors:active hiding and passive hiding, this was different from the structure in Western cultures.(2) Shared leadership had positive influence on knowledge hiding. This phenomenon whichwas different from present research may be a result of power stability weakened by sharedleadership, individuals hid their knowledge to keep their advantages in power competition.(3) Self-efficiency had significant intermediary effect on the relationship between sharedleadership and knowledge.(4)Trust had significant intermediary effect on the relationship between shared leadershipand knowledge.(5) Team size had significant mediating effects on the relationship between sharedleadership and knowledge.
Keywords/Search Tags:Shared leadership, Knowledge hiding, Self-efficiency, Trust, Team Size
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