THE INFLUENCE OF LONE WOLF TENDENCY ON KNOWLEDGESABOTAGE: THE MODERATING ROLE OF WORKPLACE OSTRACISM AND SELF-IMPROVEMENT
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Employees comprise the smallest activity unit in an organization, and employee characteristics are an important factor in predicting employee behavior. Lone Wolf employees are a typical representation of “unsociable” behavior, and thus form a group that needs special attention in an organization. Knowledge that promotes growth is the driver of an organization, and its sabotage will seriously affect its prosperous development. In this study, knowledge sabotage is regarded as an extreme knowledge behavior that harms organizations or other employees, and the relationship between employees with a Lone Wolf tendency and knowledge sabotage is interpreted from the perspective of moral behavior, and its mechanism and occurrence conditions are explored. Through data analysis of 305 employees at four time points, it was found that: (1) the Lone Wolf tendency has a significant positive effect on knowledge sabotage, (2) workplace ostracism enhances the positive relationship between the Lone Wolf tendency and knowledge sabotage, and (3) there is a positive relationship between the weakening of self-improvement and knowledge sabotage.
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