Organizational Social Activities and Knowledge Management Behaviors: An Affective Events Perspective
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Date
2022-03-16
Authors
Good, Jessica R.L.
Halinski, Michael
Boekhorst, Janet A.
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Wiley
Abstract
Research indicates that relationship-oriented HR practices can increase organizational knowledge, yet we know little about the effects of relationship-oriented HR practices on employee knowledge management behaviors. Drawing from affective events theory, we examine the indirect effect of participation in one type of relationship-oriented HR practice (i.e., organizational social activities) on three knowledge management behaviors (i.e., knowledge sharing, knowledge hiding, and knowledge manipulating) via positive affect, as well as the conditional indirect effect of intrinsic motivation for organizational social activities on these relationships. Utilizing a time-separated field study (n = 163), our analysis reveals positive affect fully mediates the relationship between participation in organizational social activities and (a) knowledge sharing and (b) knowledge hiding, and partially mediates the relationship between participation in organizational social activities, and (c) knowledge manipulating. Most interestingly, we unexpectedly found a positive direct effect of participation in organizational social activities on knowledge manipulation, even though the indirect effect via positive affect was negative. The results also indicate that, for individuals with high intrinsic motivation for social activities, there is a significant indirect effect of participation in organizational social activities on all three knowledge management behaviors.
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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Good, J. R., Halinski, M., & Boekhorst, J. A. (2022l). Organizational social activities and Knowledge Management Behaviors: An affective events perspective. Human Resource Management, 62(4), 413–427 which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.22109 . This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
Keywords
relationship-oriented HR practices, social activities, positive affect, knowledge management behaviors, intrinsic motivation, affective events theory