Research On The Influence Of Differential Leadership On Employees’ Knowledge Hiding Behavior

Knowledge and skill resources are very important to the development of enterprises in the knowledge economy,but in fact,employees’ knowledge hiding behavior is common,which brings certain losses to enterprises.Differential leadership whicn is the native leadership style of china,due to the differential treatment of employees,there is no fair support system,employees lack a sense of trust and emotional dependence on leaders and colleagues,the behavior will generally be reflected in increased defensive resistance behavior and knowledge hiding behavior.The thesis is based on social identity theory,through literature review of the four variables,compilation of scales to collect data,and finally hypothesis formulation and testing.The dissertation uses an online questionnaire to conduct the study,and all the scales are reliable domestic and international scales,and an electronic questionnaire is created.The questionnaires were collected twice,,with an interval of one month,and 327 valid questionnaires were obtained by matching personal information.The data were processed and analyzed to test the hypotheses,and the final conclusion was drawn.The results of data analysis are as follows:(1)differential leadership positively influences employees’ knowledge hiding behavior;(2)differential leadership positively influences employees’ organizational political perception;(3)employees’ organizational political perception mediates differential leadership and employees’ knowledge hiding behavior;and(4)leadership power plays a moderating role between differential leadership and employees’ organizational political perception.When leadership power is high,it reinforces the positive effect between the two variables;(5)the interaction between differential leadership and leadership power affects employees’ knowledge hiding behavior through employees’ organizational political perceptions.The effect is reinforced when leadership power is high.The theoretical implications of the paper are:(1)enriching the study of variables(2)enriching the path of differential leadership.The practical implications are:(1)to provide suggestions for the management of the organization;(2)to prompt the organization to pay attention to the differential treatment behavior of leaders and to guide them positively;(3)to use the employees’ own motivation to promote the construction and development of the enterprise.