For my eyes only: The effect of supervisor nosiness on knowledge sharing behavior among restaurant workers.

Research consistently finds that maintaining a healthy balance between work and other life domains often requires employees to establish psychological boundaries that differentiate work from non-work life domains. However, research has not paid enough attention to the implications that certain actions performed by leaders might have for hospitality employees' privacy management efforts. The present research, therefore, contributes to the literature on privacy management in hospitality organizations by exploring how hospitality workers manage their private information in response to supervisor nosiness – supervisors' intrusive attempts to obtain information about employees' personal activities and affairs outside of work. Through the lens of communication privacy management theory, we proposed that interpersonal justice climate mediates the cross-level effect of supervisor nosiness on employee knowledge sharing behavior and that this negative indirect effect would be moderated by supervisor authenticity. Using data gathered from employees and supervisors of 95 restaurants across Taiwan, results from multi-level path analysis provided support for each hypothesized relationship. • Supervisor nosiness leads to poorer interpersonal justice climates. • Interpersonal justice climate positively relates to employee knowledge sharing. • Supervisor authenticity acts as a boundary condition of supervisor nosiness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]