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Preventing Knowledge Loss When Employees Expect to Leave
relationships between independent variables and knowledge sharing, and the relationship
between the two turnover-supervisor support interaction terms and knowledge sharing.
As shown in Model 1, there was a positive relationship between knowledge sharing and
intrinsic motivation (γ = 0.21, p = 0.001), which decreased in size when other variables were
added in subsequent models, but remained to be significant. Furthermore, intragroup trust was
positively related to knowledge sharing (γ = 0.25, p < 0.000), again representing an important
association that was supported across all models analyzed. In a similar manner, a positive
relationship between team size and knowledge sharing could be shown across all models,
though it was not as strong as the former (γ = 0.03, p = 0.003). Finally, there was a tendency
for a positive relationship between job experience and knowledge sharing (γ = 0.01, p =
0.099). The variance explained by the different models, at the individual and team level as
well as overall variance explained, can be found in Table 11.
Model 2 displays the results for the tests of Hypotheses 1 to 3. Hypothesis 1 suggested a
negative relationship between turnover intention and knowledge sharing. This hypothesis was
not supported, as the relationship was found to be positive (γ = 0.09, p = 0.004). Hypothesis
2a, on the other hand, was supported, as the relationship between expected involuntary
turnover and knowledge sharing was found to be negative (γ = -0.15, p = 0.003). Hypothesis
2b was supported as well. Contrast analysis revealed that the coefficients for turnover
intention and expected involuntary turnover differed significantly from each other (χ 2 = 17.79,
p = 0.000). As the coefficient for expected involuntary turnover was negative, while the
coefficient for turnover intention was positive, we can, thus, conclude that the relationship
between expected involuntary turnover and knowledge sharing is more strongly negative than
the relationship between turnover intention and knowledge sharing. PSS was shown to be
positively related to knowledge sharing (γ = 0.20, p < 0.000), which confirmed our
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