Accounting & Marketing

Indirect effect of knowledge hiding in the relationship between abusive supervision and employee creativity

Abstract

Muhammad Awais*, Amna Manzoor and Sajid Imran

Employee creativity has been treated as essential for organization’s survival and competition the term refers to the generation of novel and useful ideas regarding products, practices, services or procedures in workplace. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between abusive supervision and employee creativity. The authors tested the hypotheses with a Simple random sampling technique was used. 222 questionnaires distributed among the service sector of Sargodha, Pakistan. Abusive supervision is negatively related to employee creativity and fully mediate by knowledge hiding. In addition, the positive relationship between abusive supervision and knowledge hiding. This study will be helpful to managers in managing abusive supervision by employee knowledge hide at work, and also increase and promote the knowledge sharing climate in organization. This study examines the mediating role of knowledge hiding in the relationship between abusive supervision and employee creativity in the lens of Social exchange theory.