The Role of Employee Trust in the Relationship Between Leaders’ Aggressive Humor and Knowledge Sharing | ||||
| Journal of Association of Arab Universities for Tourism and Hospitality | ||||
| Article 8, Volume 19, Issue 1, December 2020, Page 143-157 PDF (708.07 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jaauth.2020.45371.1079 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
Sameh Fayyad  
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| Hotels Studies Department, Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Suez Canal University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Purpose– The current paper aims to examine leaders’ aggressive humor's influence on knowledge-sharing among hotel employees. EmployeeTrust is also tested as a moderator variable between this association. Design/methodology– An online questionnaire of 387 customer-contact employees of 38 five-star hotels located in Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt provided data on the moderating role of trust in aggressive humor- knowledge-sharing relationships. Using the SEM by the PLS method by SmartPLS3 program, the data were analyzed, and the hypotheses were tested. Findings– Aggressive humor is negatively related to knowledge-sharing among hotel employees. Results also confirm the intervening role of trust as a moderator in the relationship between aggressive humor and knowledge-sharing. Practical implications– The results underscore the trust variable's benefits as a moderator in the relationship between aggressive humor and knowledge-sharing. Originality/value – This paper developed a model for the moderating effect of trust on the association between aggressive humor and knowledge-sharing. Thus, the study fills part of the gap dearth of studies that have examined the impact of negative humor in the workplace. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Humor; Aggressive; Trust; Knowledge sharing; PLS | ||||
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