Impact of Abusive Supervision on Breach of Psychological Contract and Knowledge Hiding Behavior: Does Spirituality Curtails this Relationship at the Workplace?

Abstract

Aim of the Study: This research analyzes the impact of abusive supervision on breach of psychological contract and knowledge hiding behavior with the moderating role of spirituality of employees working in project-based organizations.

Methodology: Project based organizations are selected as employees are hired based on the required projects till completion of projects. It is pertinent to study that how they face abusive supervision and in the result of this they develop knowledge hiding behavior. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed to 200 employees of project-based organizations, however, 189 individual responded.

Findings: The result shows that abusive supervision positively impacts the breach of psychological contract and knowledge hiding behavior. The results also reveals that individual spirituality reduce the impact of BPC on knowledge hiding behavior.

Conclusion: The study depicted that the abusive supervision impact the knowledge hiding behavior among the employees, therefore, strategies should be design at organizational level in order to overcome such issues in such organizations which requires timely completion of projects.