‘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 |
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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 |
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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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