How authoritarian leadership and renqing orientation improve tacit knowledge sharing

Zhen Jiao Chen, Meng Meng Song, Lin Jia, Zhao Hua Wang

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    Abstract

    Following an indigenous approach and fairness theory, we develop a theoretical model to investigate when and how authoritarian leadership will improve tacit knowledge sharing (KS). Drawing on survey data from 309 Chinese employees, we examine whether authoritarian leadership will affect procedural fairness (PF) perception and interactional fairness (IF) perception, which in turn, will affect tacit KS; and examine whether leader renqing orientation (LRO) will moderate these mediation processes. Our data demonstrate that authoritarian leadership is negatively related to IF perception, which is positively related to tacit KS. Moreover, authoritarian leadership significantly increases tacit KS intention through PF perception only when LRO is high. Authoritarian leadership significantly decreases tacit KS intention through PF perception and IF perception only when LRO is low. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 50th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2017
    EditorsTung X. Bui, Ralph Sprague
    PublisherIEEE Computer Society
    Pages4475-4484
    Number of pages10
    ISBN (Electronic)9780998133102
    Publication statusPublished - 2017
    Event50th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2017 - Big Island, United States
    Duration: 3 Jan 20177 Jan 2017

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
    Volume2017-January
    ISSN (Print)1530-1605

    Conference

    Conference50th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2017
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityBig Island
    Period3/01/177/01/17

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