Can Islamic work ethics encourage knowledge-sharing behaviors? The role of job embeddedness and organizational identification
Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research
ISSN: 1759-0817
Article publication date: 10 October 2021
Issue publication date: 4 November 2021
Abstract
Purpose
This study aims to examine the relationship between Islamic work ethics (IWE), job embeddedness and knowledge-sharing behaviors. It also tested the mediating effects of job embeddedness and the moderating effects of organizational identification on this relationship.
Design/methodology/approach
A total of 396 respondents from Islamic banks in Indonesia participated in this study. Data analyzes for hypothesis testing were conducted using Hayes’ PROCESS macro-based hierarchical regression.
Findings
The findings suggest that subscribing to IWEs positively and significantly impacts job embeddedness and knowledge-sharing behaviors. Moreover, job embeddedness was confirmed as a mediator in the relationship between IWEs and knowledge-sharing behavior. Finally, the effects of IWEs on knowledge-sharing behaviors are stronger when employees attain a high level of organizational identification.
Practical implications
By encouraging the adoption of IWEs, organizations can develop job embeddedness and promote knowledge-sharing in the workplace, especially in an Islamic banking context. Therefore, managers should strengthen the mutual understanding among employees regarding IWE principles. They should be consistently applied and disseminated by Islamic banks’ management in the form of a formal code of ethics that applies to all actions within the organization.
Originality/value
This study was conducted to extend the understanding of IWE and its relationship with workplace outcomes in modern organizations. Drawing on the conservation of resources theory, social identity theory and Islamic theology, new insights are provided by explaining the psychological mechanism underlying the relationship between IWEs and knowledge-sharing behaviors while proposing organizational identification as the boundary condition.
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Acknowledgements
The authors thank the valuable comments and suggestions from the anonymous reviewers and acknowledge the editorial assistance in revising this paper. Special thanks to the Editage (www.editage.com) for English language editing.
Authors’ contributions: Conceptualization, Suryani and Hendryadi.; methodology, Suryani, Hendryadi and Budi Sudrajat; formal analysis, Amelia Oktrivina Siregar and Hendryadi; data curation, Suryani, Amelia Oktrivina Siregar, Hafifuddin and Zulfikar Ali Buto; writing – original draft preparation, Suryani and Hendryadi; writing – review and editing, Hafifuddin, Budi Sudrajat, Zulfikar Ali Buto and Amelia Oktrivina Siregar.
Data availability statements: Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed in this study.
Competing interests: No potential competing interest was reported by the authors.
Funding: The authors received no financial support for the research and publication of this article.
Citation
Suryani, S., Sudrajat, B., Hendryadi, H., Oktrivina, A., Hafifuddin, H. and Ali Buto, Z. (2021), "Can Islamic work ethics encourage knowledge-sharing behaviors? The role of job embeddedness and organizational identification", Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research, Vol. 12 No. 8, pp. 1181-1199. https://doi.org/10.1108/JIABR-03-2021-0103
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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