Abstract
Good knowledge management is important for enterprises to maintain competitive advantage; however, the knowledge hiding behavior may hinder this process. Based on the conservation of resources and psychological ownership theories, using a chain intermediary model, this study investigates the effect of justice sensitivity on knowledge hiding through perceived time pressure and territoriality, and further tests the moderating role of territoriality. For the study, we collected 436 questionnaires from China through the Wenjuanxing Sample Service, of which 391 were valid. We then conducted multiple regression analysis and employed the bootstrap method for our tests. The results show that victim sensitivity has a significant effect on perceived time pressure, territoriality, and knowledge hiding, and that a chain mediating effect of perceived time pressure and territoriality is established between justice sensitivity and knowledge hiding. Further, territoriality has a positive moderating effect on perceived time pressure and knowledge hiding, while the mediating effect of perceived time pressure on justice sensitivity and knowledge hiding is also moderated by territoriality. Further, the study offers important practical implications in that enterprises should not blindly pursue results by making employees work excessively overtime. And there should have rationalized regulations in organization to ensure justice. The management should pay close attention to the psychological problems of victim and perpetrator. Instead, enterprises should have a certain degree of control, offer rationales for overtime work, and give high wages to the employees to compensate for their time, thus making the employees feel the worthiness of their overtime work and reducing the probability of engaging in knowledge hiding behaviors.
Highlights
With the rapid development of the Internet economy in recent years, knowledge management methods have become increasingly important for enterprises, governments, and non-governmental organizations to remain competitive
Time pressure has been widely used in workplace research, and some studies have directly shown that perceived time pressure has a positive effect on knowledge hiding (Zhang et al, 2021)
Perpetrator sensitivity, territoriality, and perceived time pressure in the regression equation, the predictive effects of territoriality and perceived time pressure on knowledge hiding were found to be significant at the 0.01 level, whereas perpetrator sensitivity was still not significant
Summary
With the rapid development of the Internet economy in recent years, knowledge management methods have become increasingly important for enterprises, governments, and non-governmental organizations to remain competitive. It investigates the behavior of animals occupying territory to study the evolutionary traits of organisms. Time pressure has been widely used in workplace research, and some studies have directly shown that perceived time pressure has a positive effect on knowledge hiding (Zhang et al, 2021). We believe that the analysis and discussion in this paper could cover these stressful phenomena They can represent a part of same problem about knowledge hiding in other countries. This study investigates the influence mechanism of justice sensitivity on knowledge hiding by focusing on knowledge hiding in the process of knowledge communication of enterprise employees and introducing multiple variables such as perceived time pressure and territoriality
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