Congratulations to Dr Tatiana Andreeva here in the School of Business, whose paper, co-authored with Dr Paola Zappa, University College London is among the top 10 most cited papers in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.
This 2023 paper demonstrates that gender plays an important role in knowledge hiding at work – that is, intentionally concealing knowledge from a colleague who requested it. The study finds that men hide their knowledge from colleagues at work more frequently, and when they do so, they experience no penalties while women do.
One of the key practical implications of this study is that managers should be careful using practices that emphasize competition among employees, as these foster behaviours fitting with stereotypical male social role expectations and may further encourage and legitimize knowledge hiding by men.
You can read the full paper here: https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joop.12444