‘Let's share!’ The mediating role of employees' self-determination in the relationship between transformational and shared leadership and perceived knowledge sharing among peers

Autor: M.J.H. Coun, Robert Jan Blomme, Pascale Peters
Přispěvatelé: Department Organisation, RS-Research Line Resilience (part of LIRS program), RS-Research Line Learning (part of LIRS program), RS-Research Line Innovation (part of LIRS program)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
NEED SATISFACTION
Knowledge sharing
VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
Strategy and Management
media_common.quotation_subject
Need fulfilment
Team effectiveness
Shared leadership
EMPOWERING LEADERSHIP
0502 economics and business
BEHAVIORAL-RESEARCH
TEAM EFFECTIVENESS
Workplace flexibility
Competence (human resources)
Self-determination theory
media_common
WORK
ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION
RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT
05 social sciences
Structural equation modelling (SEM)
workplace flexibility
knowledge sharing
need fulfilment
self-determination theory
social exchange
structural equation modelling (SEM)
transformational and shared leadership
PERFORMANCE
EFFICACY
JOB CHARACTERISTICS
Transformational leadership
Social exchange theory
050211 marketing
Transformational and shared leadership
Psychology
Social exchange
Social psychology
050203 business & management
Autonomy
Zdroj: European Management Journal, 37(4):EMJ1894, 481-491. ELSEVIER SCI LTD
Coun, M J H, Peters, P & Blomme, R J 2019, ' ‘Let's share!’ The mediating role of employees' self-determination in the relationship between transformational and shared leadership and perceived knowledge sharing among peers ', European Management Journal, vol. 37, no. 4, EMJ1894, pp. 481-491 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2018.12.001, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2018.12.001
ISSN: 0263-2373
Popis: Building on social-exchange and self-determination theory, this study aimed to contribute to the scholarly literature on leadership and knowledge sharing by simultaneously testing how shared and transformational leadership and their interrelatedness may foster employees' perceptions of knowledge sharing behaviour among peers. Additionally, we investigated the mediating role of employees' basic psychological needs satisfaction (in terms of autonomy, competence and relatedness, respectively) as an additional explanatory mechanism to reveal how shared and transformational leadership may foster individuals' perceptions of knowledge sharing behaviour among peers. We employed PLS structural equation modelling to analyse survey data obtained from professionals in an R&D unit of a knowledge-intensive firm. We found shared leadership to be the most important factor enhancing employees' perceptions of knowledge sharing among peers, both directly and indirectly through employees' satisfaction of the need for autonomy. Transformational leadership was found to foster employees' knowledge sharing ultimately, through shared leadership and the need for autonomy satisfaction. We concluded that shared forms of leadership supplemented with transformational leadership on the part of formal leaders are important in contemporary work environments as they can foster employees' perceptions of knowledge sharing among peers and contribute towards employees' self-determination, which ultimately enhances perceptions of knowledge sharing among peers.
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