The Impact of Supervisor’s Dark Triad Personality Traits and Workplace Ostracism on Subordinates’ Knowledge Hiding Behavior Within Government Organizations in Cairo

Abstract

[1] ABSTRACT This research is interested in studying the role of Supervisor’s Dark Triad Personality Traits, workplace ostracism and its impact on Subordinates’ knowledge hiding Behavior. It also focuses on investigating how the dark triad and the ostracism personality traits lead to subordinate’s knowledge hiding as a preventive action against their supervisor’s threats. The purpose of this research is to show the impact of dark triad of personality dimensions and its (psychopathy-Narcissism-Machiavellianism) and workplace ostracism of the supervisors and its impact on their subordinate's knowledge hiding and its dimensions (playing dump- Evasive hiding -Rationalized hiding). Using questionnaires, in addition of Path analysis, on a convenient sample of 352 employees working on Government Organizations in Cairo. The obtained results confirm the initial hypothesis that there is a positive and significance impact of Dark triad of supervisor personality traits and workplace ostracism on subordinates’ knowledge hiding Behavior, which were in the same line with previous literature and fulfilled the objectives of the current research.