Effects of HR Diversity Management on Employee Knowledge Sharing: Mediating Role of Trust

Human resource (HR) diversity management focuses on equality and values employee diversity. Effective HR diversity management is seen as a key to business success. In this study, we developed and tested a meso-mediated moderation model of the underlying process through which HR diversity management is associated with employee knowledge sharing willingness and actual behavior. We found that HR diversity management was positively related to employee knowledge sharing and this relationship was fully mediated by trust in the organization. Moreover, cooperative norms moderated the impact of trust in the organization on knowledge sharing. The findings of this research pave the way for the future research advancing our understanding of the impact of HR diversity management on employee work attitudes, behaviors and performance as well as organizational performance. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.