Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Can paternalistic leaders enhance knowledge sharing? The roles of organizational commitment and Islamic work ethics

Can paternalistic leaders enhance knowledge sharing? The roles of organizational commitment and... This paper aims to investigate the effect of paternalistic leadership (benevolent, moral and authoritarian) on knowledge sharing of nurses through the mediation of organizational commitment (affective, continuance and normative). Further, the study examines the moderating role of Islamic work ethics on the association between organizational commitment and knowledge sharing.Design/methodology/approachIn this quantitative study, data was collected from 312 nurses working in the health-care sector of Pakistan through “Google Forms” in two waves. Moreover, structural equation modeling was used to test the proposed hypotheses.FindingsThe study noted affective and normative commitment as mediators between the associations of benevolent, moral and authoritarian leadership with knowledge sharing, whereas continuance commitment was not found as an explaining variable. In addition, Islamic work ethics was found to strengthen the association of affective and normative commitment with knowledge sharing. However, Islamic work ethics was found to weaken the association between continuance commitment and knowledge sharing.Practical implicationsThis study offers practical insights for health-care executives to act as fatherly figures to enhance the knowledge sharing of their nurses. The study recommends that managers in the health-care system build such an environment that helps nurses follow Islamic work ethics. It may enhance their level of organizational commitment and encourage them to engage in knowledge sharing behaviors to have a successful work environment.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors’ knowledge, this research is the first to extend the literature on paternalistic leadership. More specifically, this study investigated how various dimensions of paternalistic leadership (benevolent, moral and authoritarian) effects three-dimensional commitment (affective, continuance and normative) to enhance knowledge sharing behavior among nurses. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png "Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication" Emerald Publishing

Can paternalistic leaders enhance knowledge sharing? The roles of organizational commitment and Islamic work ethics

Download PDF
21 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/emerald-publishing/can-paternalistic-leaders-enhance-knowledge-sharing-the-roles-of-Ll7wOLHgnX
Publisher
Emerald Publishing
Copyright
© Emerald Publishing Limited
ISSN
2514-9342
eISSN
2514-9342
DOI
10.1108/gkmc-06-2021-0109
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the effect of paternalistic leadership (benevolent, moral and authoritarian) on knowledge sharing of nurses through the mediation of organizational commitment (affective, continuance and normative). Further, the study examines the moderating role of Islamic work ethics on the association between organizational commitment and knowledge sharing.Design/methodology/approachIn this quantitative study, data was collected from 312 nurses working in the health-care sector of Pakistan through “Google Forms” in two waves. Moreover, structural equation modeling was used to test the proposed hypotheses.FindingsThe study noted affective and normative commitment as mediators between the associations of benevolent, moral and authoritarian leadership with knowledge sharing, whereas continuance commitment was not found as an explaining variable. In addition, Islamic work ethics was found to strengthen the association of affective and normative commitment with knowledge sharing. However, Islamic work ethics was found to weaken the association between continuance commitment and knowledge sharing.Practical implicationsThis study offers practical insights for health-care executives to act as fatherly figures to enhance the knowledge sharing of their nurses. The study recommends that managers in the health-care system build such an environment that helps nurses follow Islamic work ethics. It may enhance their level of organizational commitment and encourage them to engage in knowledge sharing behaviors to have a successful work environment.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors’ knowledge, this research is the first to extend the literature on paternalistic leadership. More specifically, this study investigated how various dimensions of paternalistic leadership (benevolent, moral and authoritarian) effects three-dimensional commitment (affective, continuance and normative) to enhance knowledge sharing behavior among nurses.

Journal

"Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication" – Emerald Publishing

Published: Jan 10, 2023

Keywords: Affective commitment; Islamic work ethics; Knowledge sharing; Normative commitment; Continuance commitment; Paternalistic leadership; Authoritarian leadership; Benevolent leadership; Moral leadership; Affective commitment

References

  • Key factors influencing knowledge sharing practices and its relationship with organizational performance within the oil and gas industry
    Abdelwhab Ali, A.; Panneer Selvam, D.D.D.; Paris, L.; Gunasekaran, A.
  • The nexus of corporate social responsibility (CSR), affective commitment and organisational citizenship behaviour in academia: a model of trust
    Ahmad, R.; Ahmad, S.; Islam, T.; Kaleem, A.
  • Managing bullying in the workplace: a model of servant leadership, employee resilience and proactive personality
    Ahmad, S.; Islam, T.; Sohal, A.S.; Wolfram Cox, J.; Kaleem, A.
  • The Islamic work ethic in Arabia
    Ali, A.
  • The measurement and antecedents of affective, continuance and normative commitment to the organization
    Allen, N.J.; Meyer, J.P.
  • Factors influencing the participation of nurses in knowledge-sharing within mobile instant messaging based virtual communities of practice: a qualitative content analysis
    Babajani-Vafsi, S.; Mokhtari Nouri, J.; Ebadi, A.; Zolfaghari, M.
  • Developing normative commitment as a consequence of receiving help: the moderated mediating roles of team-member exchange and individualism/collectivism – a multi-level model
    Barron, K.; Chou, S.Y.
  • Cross-country findings on tacit knowledge sharing: evidence from the Brazilian and Indonesian IT workers
    Borges, R.; Bernardi, M.; Petrin, R.
  • The multi-level effects of developmental opportunities, pay equity, and paternalistic leadership on organizational commitment
    Chai, D.S.; Jeong, S.; Joo, B.-K.
  • Affective trust in Chinese leaders: linking paternalistic leadership to employee performance
    Chen, X.; Eberly, M.; Chiang, T.; Farh, J.; Cheng, B.
  • A triad model of paternalistic leadership: its constructs and measurement
    Cheng, B.S.; Chou, L.F.; Farh, J.L.
  • Collective efficacy: linking paternalistic leadership to organizational commitment
    Chen, Y.; Zhou, X.; Klyver, K.
  • How transformational leadership facilitates innovative behaviour of Korean workers: examining mediating and moderating processes
    Choi, S.; Kim, K.; Ebrahim Ullah, S.; Kang, S.-W.
  • A social exchange perspective of abusive supervision and knowledge sharing: investigating the moderating effect of psychological contract fulfillment and self-enhancement motive
    Choi, W.; Kim, S.L.; Yun, S.
  • Developmental mentoring, affective organizational commitment, and knowledge sharing in public accounting firms
    Curtis, M.B.; Taylor, E.Z.
  • The effect of ethical leadership behavior on ethical climate, turnover intention, and affective commitment
    Demirtas, O.; Akdogan, A.A.
  • Investigation of the relationship between structural empowerment and organizational commitment of nurses in Zanjan hospitals
    Eskandari, F.; Siahkali, S.R.; Shoghli, A.; Pazargadi, M.; Tafreshi, M.
  • Evaluating structural equation models with unobservable variables and measurement error
    Fornell, C.; Larcker, D.F.
  • Respectful leadership and followers’ knowledge sharing: a social mindfulness lens
    Gerpott, F.H.; Ulrike, F.; Anne, B.
  • Mediating effect of intrinsic motivation on the relationship between Islamic work ethic, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment in banking sector
    Gheitani, A.; Imani, S.; Seyyedamiri, N.; Foroudi, P.
  • Linking authoritarian leadership to employee creativity: the influences of leader–member exchange, team identification and power distance
    Gu, J.; Wang, G.; Liu, H.; Song, D.; He, C.
  • How and when Islamic work ethic (IWE) leads to employee promotive and prohibitive voice? The interplay of employee moral identity and perceived voice opportunity
    Hameed, I.; Bhatti, Z.A.; Khan, M.A.; Syed, S.
  • Relationship between ethical work climate and nurses’ perception of organizational support, commitment, job satisfaction and turnover intention
    Hashish, E.A.A.
  • Examining interpersonal trust as a facilitator and uncertainty as an inhibitor of intra-organisational knowledge sharing
    Hsu, M.H.; Chang, C.M.
  • Consequences of visiting restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic: an integrative review
    Hugelius, K.; Harada, N.; Marutani, M.
  • The influence of individual behaviour and organizational commitment towards the enhancement of Islamic work ethics at royal Malaysian air force
    Husin, W.N.W.; Kernain, N.F.Z.
  • Abusive supervision and knowledge sharing: moderating roles of Islamic work ethic and learning goal orientation
    Islam, T.; Ahmad, S.; Kaleem, A.; Mahmood, K.
  • I regret to hide knowledge: a coping strategy model
    Islam, T.; Chaudhary, A.; Aziz, M.F.
  • Unleashing the mechanism between affect-based trust and employee creativity: a knowledge sharing perspective
    Islam, T.; Chaudhary, A.; Jamil, S.; Ali, H.F.
  • Abusive supervision and knowledge hiding: the moderating roles of future orientation and Islamic work ethics
    Islam, T.; Ahmed, I.; Usman, A.; Ali, M.
  • How workplace bullying affects nurses’ well-being? The roles of burnout and passive avoidant leadership
    Islam, T.; Ali, M.; Jamil, S.; Ali, H.F.
  • Understanding despotic leadership through the lens of Islamic work ethics
    Islam, T.; Ahmed, I.; Ali, M.; Ahmer, Z.; Usman, B.
  • The knowledge hiding link: a moderated mediation model of how abusive supervision affects employee creativity
    Jahanzeb, S.; Fatima, T.; Bouckenooghe, D.; Bashir, F.
  • The impact of authentic leadership on knowledge sharing behavior with the moderating role of Islamic work ethics
    Javaid, M.; Abdullah, N.H.; Zeb, A.; Hussain, K.
  • Impact of abusive supervision on deviant work behavior: the role of Islamic work ethic
    Javed, B.; Fatima, T.; Yasin, R.M.; Jahanzeb, S.; Rawwas, M.Y.
  • How do different faces of paternalistic leaders facilitate or impair task and innovative performance? Opening the black box
    Karakitapo˘glu-Aygün, Z.; Gumusluoglu, L.; Scandura, T.A.
  • The mediating role of trust in stimulating the relationship between transformational leadership and knowledge sharing processes
    Le, P.B.; Lei, H.
  • Paternalistic leadership and knowledge sharing with outsiders in emerging economies: based on social exchange relations within the China context
    Lee, J.Y.; Jang, S.H.; Lee, S.Y.
  • Enhancing employees’ knowledge sharing through diversity-oriented leadership and strategic internal communication during the COVID- 19 outbreak
    Lee, Y.; Tao, W.; Li, J.-Y.Q.; Sun, R.
  • Factors affecting current users’ attitude towards e-auctions in China: an extended TAM study
    Li, R.; Chung, (D.)T.L.; Fiore, A.M.
  • Shades of paternalistic leadership across cultures
    Mansur, J.; Sobral, F.; Goldszmidt, R.
  • Transformational leadership and innovative work behavior among nursing staff
    Masood, M.; Afsar, B.
  • Personality traits, affective commitment, documentation of knowledge, and knowledge sharing
    Matzler, K.; Renzl, B.; Mooradia, T.; Krogh, G.; Mueller, J.
  • Modelling the utilization of cloud health information systems in the Iraqi public healthcare sector
    Meri, A.; Hasan, M.K.; Danaee, M.; Jaber, M.; Safei, N.; Dauwed, M.; Abd, S.K.; Al-Bsheish, M.
  • Affective, normative, and continuance commitment levels across cultures: a meta-analysis
    Meyer, J.P.; Stanley, D.J.; Jacknowledge Sharingon, T.A.; Mcinnis, K.J.; Maltin, E.R.; Sheppard, L.
  • Forecasting informatics competencies for nurses in the future of connected health
    Murphy, J.; Goossen, W.; Weber, P.
  • Impact of Islamic work ethics on organizational citizenship behaviors and knowledge-sharing behaviors
    Murtaza, G.; Abbas, M.; Raja, U.; Roques, O.; Khalid, A.; Mushtaq, R.
  • The relationship between knowledge management and nursing care performance
    Mutula, S.; Ajanaku, O.J.
  • The effect of paternalistic leadership behavior by health managers on workers’ job satisfaction
    Nal, M.; Tarim, M.
  • Islamic work ethics, organizational commitment and job satisfaction of Islamic bank knowledge sharing in Indonesia
    Nasution, F.N.; Rafiki, A.
  • Four-dimensional model: a literature review in online organisational knowledge sharing
    Nguyen, T.M.
  • Multilevel influences on individual knowledge sharing behaviours: the moderating effects of knowledge sharing opportunity and collectivism
    Nguyen, T.M.; Siri, N.S.; Malik, A.
  • Fostering knowledge sharing and knowledge utilization: the impact of organizational commitment and trust
    Ouakouak, M.L.; Ouedraogo, N.
  • Estimation of the knowledge management model for performance measurement in university libraries
    Rafi, M.; Ming, Z.J.; Ahmad, K.
  • The impact of perceived internal corporate social responsibility on organizational citizenship behavior: a micro-perspective analysis
    Rasool, I.; Rajput, A.
  • Ethical framework for directors – learning from the prophet
    Salin, A.S.A.P.; Manan, S.K.A.; Kamaluddin, N.
  • Paternalistic leadership, ethical climate and performance in health staff
    Saygili, M.; Özer, Ö.; Karakaya, P.Ö.
  • Transformational leadership and knowledge sharing: determinants of firm’s operational and financial performance
    Son, T.T.; Phong, L.B.; Loan, B.T.T.
  • Effect of ethical leadership on organizational justice: a study in a public hospital
    Songur, C.; Ozer, O.; Say Sahin, D.
  • Paternalistic leadership, organizational cynicism, and intention to quit one’s job in nursing
    Sungur, C.; Özer, O.; Saygili, M.; Uğurluoğlu, O.
  • The role of group-level perceived organizational support and collective affective commitment in the relationship between leaders’ directive and supportive behaviors and group-level helping behaviors
    Tremblay, M.; Gaudet, M.; Vandenberghe, C.
  • The effect of paternalistic leadership on job performance and intention to leave the job
    Ugurluoglu, O.; Aldogan, E.U.; Turgut, M.; Ozatkan, Y.
  • Paternalistic leadership and employee organizational attitudes: the role of positive/negative affectivity
    Ünler, E.; Kılıç, B.
  • The positive effect of authoritarian leadership on employee performance: the moderating role of power distance
    Wang, H.; Guan, B.
  • A study on the influence of paternalistic leadership on organizational commitment: focus on the mediating effect of organizational identification
    Wang, H.; Kwan, K.J.
  • Benevolence dominant, authoritarianism-dominant, and classical paternalistic leadership: testing their relationships with subordinate performance
    Wang, A.C.; Tsai, C.Y.; Dionne, S.D.; Yammarino, F.J.; Spain, S.M.; Ling, H.C.; Huang, M.P.; Chou, L.F.; Cheng, B.S.
  • Structural equation modeling in management research: a guide for improved analysis
    Williams, L.J.; Vandenberg, R.J.; Edwards, J.R.
  • The influencing mechanisms of paternalistic leadership in mainland China
    Wu, M.; Huang, X.; Chan, S.C.H.
  • Transformational leadership and knowledge sharing behavior in freelancers: a moderated mediation model with employee engagement social support
    Yadav, M.; Choudhary, S.; Jain, S.
  • Leadership styles and organizational commitment: literature review
    Yahaya, R.; Ebrahim, F.
  • Paternalistic leadership and organizational identification: the mediating role of forgiveness climate
    Yeşiltaş, M.; Gürlek, M.; Tuna, M.; Kanten, P.; Çeken, H.
  • Registered nurses (RNs)’knowledge sharing and decision‐making: the mediating role of organizational trust
    Yoo, K.H.; Zhang, Y.A.; Yun, E.K.
  • Relationship between paternalistic leadership and organizational commitment in hospitality industry: case of Antalya, Turkey
    Yüzbaşioğlu, N.; Doğan, O.
  • Capabilities that enhance outcomes of an episodic supply chain collaboration
    Zacharia, Z.; Nix, N.; Lusch, R.
  • Paternalistic leadership and employee voice in China: a dual process model
    Zhang, Y.; Huai, M.Y.; Xie, Y.H.
  • Leading teachers’ emotions like parents: relationships between paternalistic leadership, emotional labor and teacher commitment in China
    Zheng, X.; Shi, X.; Liu, Y.