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The Impact of Job Insecurity on Knowledge-Hiding Behavior: The Mediating Role of Organizational Identification and the Buffering Role of Coaching Leadership

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  • Jeeyoon Jeong

    (Korea University Business School, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea)

  • Byung-Jik Kim

    (Department of Psychology, Yonsei University, Seoul 06695, Republic of Korea
    College of Business Administration, University of Ulsan, Ulsan 44610, Republic of Korea)

  • Min-Jik Kim

    (School of Industrial Management, Korea University of Technology and Education, 1600, Chungjeol-ro, Cheonan 31253, Republic of Korea)

Abstract

As the global economic situation deteriorates due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, the business environment is plagued by uncertainty and risk. To address this, many organizations have sought to optimize efficiency, especially by downsizing and restructuring, to reduce costs. This causes anxiety among employees, who worry about whether they will be fired. We hypothesize that such job insecurity increases knowledge-hiding behavior by employees, and we investigate the mechanism underlying such a negative effect. In addition, we attempt to capture the boundary conditions of how to reduce the adverse effects of job insecurity, focusing on the role of coaching leadership. Using three-wave time-lagged cohort-study data from 346 Korean workers, we empirically found that employees who perceive job insecurity are less likely to feel organizational identification, leading to increased knowledge-hiding behavior. This study also demonstrated that coaching leadership operates as a boundary condition which buffers the negative influence of job insecurity on organizational identification. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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  • Jeeyoon Jeong & Byung-Jik Kim & Min-Jik Kim, 2022. "The Impact of Job Insecurity on Knowledge-Hiding Behavior: The Mediating Role of Organizational Identification and the Buffering Role of Coaching Leadership," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(23), pages 1-17, November.
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