Title: Workplace spirituality and knowledge hiding behaviour: a PLS-SEM analysis

Authors: Ayman Mousa Mahmoud Alnaimi; Ammar K. Almasri; Shafique Ur Rehman

Addresses: Human Resource Management, Irbid, Jordan ' Management Information Systems Department, Al-Balqa Applied University, Amman, Jordan ' Faculty of Management Sciences, ILMA University, Karachi, Pakistan

Abstract: Knowledge management has become an important area of focus for businesses due to its importance for efficiency and productivity. Considerable research has focused on the contributions that workplace spirituality has on knowledge sharing; far less research has examined whether spirituality can mitigate or lessen knowledge hiding behaviour. This article determines the interaction between workplace spirituality and knowledge hiding behaviour among bank workers in Jordan. The bank employees were sampled randomly (n = 156), and the collected data is analysed using the PLS-SEM technique. The findings suggest that workplace spirituality may play a greater role in diminishing knowledge hiding behaviour. In particular, workplace spirituality diminished evasive and playing dumb knowledge hiding behaviour, but not rationalised knowledge hiding. This article concludes with discussions on the theoretical and practical implications of the findings as well as directions for future research.

Keywords: knowledge hiding behaviour; workplace spirituality; personality traits.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBIS.2024.140435

International Journal of Business Information Systems, 2024 Vol.46 No.3, pp.356 - 372

Received: 20 Sep 2020
Accepted: 29 Apr 2021
Published online: 09 Aug 2024 *

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