ABSTRACT

We predict that contextual attributes (i.e., employees’ need for help) and offeror attributes (i.e., offeror’s performance, political nature) indirectly influence employee help acceptance through employees’ willingness to accept obligation and exploitation concerns (i.e., social loafing concerns, distrust). Study 1 is an experimental design and demonstrated that contextual and offeror attributes influence employees’ willingness to accept obligation and exploitation concerns, but only the offeror attributes (i.e., offeror performance and political nature) indirectly influence help acceptance through willingness to accept obligation and exploitation concerns. Study 2 is a field study of working adults to test the predictions while controlling for the direct effect of coworker exchange on help acceptance. The results of Study 2 replicated the results from Study 1.

摘要

我们预测，上下文属性（即员工对帮助的需求）和要约人属性（即要约人的表现，政治性质）会通过员工愿意承担义务和剥削问题（即社交游荡，不信任）而间接影响员工对帮助的接受程度。研究1是一项实验性设计，证明了上下文和要约人属性会影响员工接受义务和剥削问题的意愿，但只有要约人属性（即要约人的绩效和政治性质）通过愿意接受义务和剥削问题而间接影响帮助接受。研究2是对在职成年人进行的现场研究，目的是测试预测结果，同时控制同事交流对帮助接受的直接影响。