The Enactment of Knowledge Sharing: The Roles of Psychological Availability and Team Psychological Safety Climate

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.551366

. 2020 Sep 23:11:551366.

doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.551366. eCollection 2020.

The Enactment of Knowledge Sharing: The Roles of Psychological Availability and Team Psychological Safety Climate

Jing Qian¹, Wei Zhang², Yi Qu¹, Bin Wang³, Meng Chen¹

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¹ Business School, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
² School of Government, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
³ School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China.

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PMCID: PMC7538610
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.551366

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The Enactment of Knowledge Sharing: The Roles of Psychological Availability and Team Psychological Safety Climate

Jing Qian et al. Front Psychol. 2020.

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. 2020 Sep 23:11:551366.

doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.551366. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Jing Qian¹, Wei Zhang², Yi Qu¹, Bin Wang³, Meng Chen¹

Affiliations

¹ Business School, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
² School of Government, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
³ School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China.

PMID: 33071870
PMCID: PMC7538610
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.551366

Abstract

Scholars have made great efforts to investigate the antecedents of knowledge sharing. In the current study, we applied the proactive motivation model (Parker et al., 2010) to propose a theoretical model to advance this research line and examined the relationship between coaching and knowledge sharing. A total of 197 subordinates embedded in 32 teams from a logistics company completed the survey questionnaire. Our results show that leaders' coaching behavior is positively related to employees' knowledge sharing behavior through increased psychological availability. Furthermore, our results show that the team psychological safety climate can strengthen the effect of psychological availability on employees' knowledge sharing behavior, as well as the indirect effect of leaders' coaching behavior on employees' knowledge sharing via psychological availability (i.e., a moderated mediation effect).

Keywords: coaching behavior; knowledge sharing; proactive motivation model; psychological availability; team psychological safety climate.

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[1] Aiken L. S., West S. G. (1991). Multiple Regression: Testing and Interpreting Interactions. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

[2] Aiken L. S., West S. G. (1991). Multiple Regression: Testing and Interpreting Interactions. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

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[10] Binyamin G., Carmeli A. (2010). Does structuring of human resource management processes enhance employee creativity? The mediating role of psychological availability. Hum. Resour. Manag. 49 999–1024. 10.1002/hrm.20397 - DOI

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