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Personality Traits, Knowledge-Hiding Behavior and Job Performance of Employees Cover

Personality Traits, Knowledge-Hiding Behavior and Job Performance of Employees

Foundations of Management
Volume 17 (2025): Issue 1 (January 2025)
By: Nga Nguyen THI HANGORCID and  Nam Nguyen KIMORCID  
Open Access
|May 2025

Figures & Tables

Figure 1.

Proposed Research Model (Source: Authors’ own research) Note: Ext= “Extraversion,” Agr= “Agreeableness,” Con= “Conscientiousness,” Ope= “Openness to experience,” Neu= “Neuroticism,” KH= “Knowledge hiding,” JP= “Job performance.”
Proposed Research Model (Source: Authors’ own research) Note: Ext= “Extraversion,” Agr= “Agreeableness,” Con= “Conscientiousness,” Ope= “Openness to experience,” Neu= “Neuroticism,” KH= “Knowledge hiding,” JP= “Job performance.”

Figure 2.

The results of measurement and structural model (Source: Authors’ own research) Note: Ext= “Extraversion,” Con= “Conscientiousness,” Ope= “Openness to experience,” Agr= “Agreeableness,” Neu= “Neuroticism,” KH= “Knowledge hiding,” JP= “Job performance.” Notes: *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.
The results of measurement and structural model (Source: Authors’ own research) Note: Ext= “Extraversion,” Con= “Conscientiousness,” Ope= “Openness to experience,” Agr= “Agreeableness,” Neu= “Neuroticism,” KH= “Knowledge hiding,” JP= “Job performance.” Notes: *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.

Demographic characteristics of respondents (Source: Authors’ own research)

VariablesCategoryFrequencyPercentage
GenderMale9742.9
Female12957.1
Age20–3012655.8
31–406428.3
Above 403615.9
EducationUniversity15267.3
Master7432.7

Reliabilities and validities of the study variables (Source: Authors’ own research)

VariablesSource-ItemsFactor loadingsαCRAVE
ExtraversionGoldberg (1992); Sung and Choi (2009)Ext1Ext2Ext3Ext4TalkativeAssertiveEnergeticActive0.6550.8250.6630.8020.8370.8360.562
AgreeablenessAgr1Agr2Agr3Agr4Agr5AgreeableKindCooperativeSympatheticWarm0.7770.7730.7850.8570.7350.8920.8930.626
ConscientiousnessCon1Con2Con3Con4OrganizedEfficientCarefulConscientious0.7910.7630.7290.6490.8380.8370.564
Openness to experienceOpen1Open2Open3Open4Open5IntellectualCreativeImaginativeBrightInnovative0.6790.9020.8420.8470.9470.9300.9300.728
NeuroticismNeu1bNeu2Neu3Neu4AnxiousEmotionalIrritableNervous0.7940.6810.9270.8770.8900.8940.681
Knowledge hidingPeng (2012); Nguyen, et al. (2022)KH1KH2KH3KH4I don’t want to transfer personal knowledge and experience to othersI withhold helpful information or knowledge from othersI don’t want to transform valuable skills and expertise into organizational knowledgeI don’t want to share innovative achievements0.8030.8460.7170.8320.8830.8830.654
Job performanceChiang and Hsieh (2012); Nguyen, et al. (2022); Nguyn and Nguyn (2024)JP1JP2JP3JP4JP5I fulfilled my job responsibilities I met performance standards and expectations of the jobMy performance level satisfied my managerI was effective in my jobMy performance is still as good as it was before0.6400.8330.6520.9320.7700.8770.8810.599

Structural equation model (Source: Authors’ own research)

Direct effectBβStandardizedp-valueHypothesis testing
Ext -> KH-0.223-0.2670.000Supported
Agr -> KH-0.429-0.4070.000Supported
Con -> KH0.3700.3130.000Supported
Ope -> KH-0.213-0.2740.000Supported
Neu -> KH-0.004-0.0050.932Not supported
KH -> JP-0.365-0.2670.000Supported
Indirect effect----
Ext -> KH-> JP0.0810.0640.005Supported
Agr -> KH-> JP0.1570.1090.001Supported
Con-> KH-> JP-0.135-0.0840.001Supported
Ope -> KH-> JP0.0780.0730.001Supported
Neu-> KH-> JP0.0010.0010.893Not supported

Correlation matrix (Source: Authors’ own research)

-ConOpeAgrJPNeuKHExt
Con0.751------
Ope-0.3670.853-----
Agr-0.0370.2830.791----
JP-0.1360.2910.1590.774---
Neu-0.1610.3460.2830.2330.826--
KH0.333-0.464-0.510-0.266-0.2800.809-
Ext0.3200.0780.2320.1660.272-0.2400.749
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fman-2025-0006 | Journal eISSN: 2300-5661 | Journal ISSN: 2080-7279
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Language: English
Page range: 85 - 96
Published on: May 15, 2025
Published by: Warsaw University of Technology
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Personality Traits,
Knowledge Hiding,
Job Performance,
Big Five
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
Business computing,
Business and economics,
Business management,
Management accounting, financial controlling, cost calculation, investment

© 2025 Nga Nguyen THI HANG, Nam Nguyen KIM, published by Warsaw University of Technology
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