Noor ul Ain2025-08-062025-08-062022https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/4524As an emerging novelty, knowledge hiding has received considerate attention recently. The increasing interest of researchers and practitioners alike in this phenomenon has instigated the need to explore the effects of knowledge hiding in predicting employee well-being in the organizations. Extending this area, the current thesis examined the mechanism of how and when the targets of knowledge hiding struggle to maintain their job performance. Drawing on conservation of resource theory, this study investigated the relationship between knowledge hiding and job performance (in-role & extra-role) and also considered emotional exhaustion as a key underlying psychological mechanism between knowledge hiding and performance linkage. In addition, it investigated the moderating role of political skill and emotional intelligence in influencing this mediation.enThesis