Volume 30, Issue 2, 2021
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.4017
The Moderating Effect of Ethical Leadership between Psychological Ownership of Knowledge and Knowledge Hiding: An Empirical Study on the Public Universities in Northern Iraq
Abstract
The intention of this study is to examine the relationship between psychological ownership of knowledge and knowledge hiding and how this relationship is moderated by ethical leadership. To check the hypotheses, field data were gathered from a sample of 178 employees in four public universities in Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The outcomes show there is a positive relationship between psychological ownership of knowledge and knowledge hiding and this connection is moderated by ethical leadership. This is the first attempt to investigate the moderating role of ethical leadership on the connection between psychological ownership of knowledge and knowledge hiding in a largely overlooked context of Iraqi Kurdistan.
Keywords
knowledge management, ethical leadership, psychological ownership of knowledge, knowledge hiding, public organizations