Perceived mastery climate,felt trust,and knowledge sharing |
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| Authors: | Christina GL Nerstad Rosalind Searle Matej ?erne Anders Dysvik Miha ?kerlavaj Ronny Scherer |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway;2. Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.;3. Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia;4. Centre for Educational Measurement at the University of Oslo (CEMO), University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway |
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| Abstract: | Interpersonal trust is associated with a range of adaptive outcomes, including knowledge sharing. However, to date, our knowledge of antecedents and consequences of employees feeling trusted by supervisors in organizations remains limited. On the basis of a multisource, multiwave field study among 956 employees from 5 Norwegian organizations, we examined the predictive roles of perceived mastery climate and employee felt trust for employees' knowledge sharing. Drawing on the achievement goal theory, we develop and test a model to demonstrate that when employees perceive a mastery climate, they are more likely to feel trusted by their supervisors at both the individual and group levels. Moreover, the relationship between employees' perceptions of a mastery climate and supervisor‐rated knowledge sharing is mediated by perceptions of being trusted by the supervisor. Theoretical contributions and practical implications of our findings are discussed. |
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| Keywords: | felt trust knowledge sharing motivational climate multilevel modeling |
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