The Effect Of Leader Knowledge Hiding On Employee Voice Behavior

Knowledge hiding behavior is common in the organization,which hinders the cooperation among employees and affects the transmission and development of new knowledge and new ideas.Through literature review,the current researches on knowledge hiding are mostly focused on employees and team members' internal,while the researches on the knowledge distance between leaders and employees are still lack of empirical tests.Therefore,based on the social exchange theory,this paper aims to explore the influence of perceived leader knowledge hiding in different dimensions on voice behavior and the mediation transmission mechanism of LMX,and analyze the situational effect of knowledge distance between leaders and employees.This paper takes 441 employees as the research object,conducts the research by means of questionnaire survey,and uses statistical software such as SPSS 22.0 and lisrel 18.0 to conduct statistical analysis on the data.Firstly,the questionnaire was pre-tested and modified,and then the influence of perceived leader knowledge hiding on employee voice behavior,the mediating effect of LMX in the relationship,and the moderating effect of knowledge distance in the model were discussed by using correlation,regression and other methods.The research results are as follows:(1)Perceived leader evasive hiding and perceived leader playing dumb had an negative effect on employee voice behavior.So,improve leaders' evasive hiding and playing dumb cloud induce employee voice behavior.(2)Perceived leader rationalized hiding has no significant influence on employee voice behavior.The rationalized hiding of leaders has nothing to do with voice behavior.(3)LMX completely mediated the relationship between perceived leaders' evasive hiding,playing dumb and voice behavior.It indicates that perceived leaders evasive hiding and playing dumb play the role in employees' voice behavior through LMX.Therefore,leaders' increase of evasive hiding and playing dumb will lower LMX and thus reduce the voice behavior of employees.(4)The moderating effect of knowledge distance on the influence of perceived leader knowledge hiding on LMX is significant.The greater the knowledge distance,the stronger thenegative effect of perceived leadership knowledge hiding and LMX.Based on the research results,this paper suggests that organizations should pay attention to the negative effects of managers' knowledge hiding and knowledge distance from employees on employees' voice behavior,enhance positive knowledge communication with employees,build a reasonable talent hierarchy,and create a harmonious interpersonal atmosphere for employees' voice behavior.