Idiosyncratic deals (i-deals) refer to customized work arrangements and employment conditions employees negotiate with employers. Significant scholarly attention has been paid to understand the responses of i-deals' recipients. However, little attention has been paid to coworkers' reactions to the i-deals. This study examines how coworkers react to focal employees' i-deals. We tested our hypotheses with a sample of 253 employee–coworker pairs and found that coworkers are more likely to accept focal employees' flexibility i-deals than development i-deals. Specifically, we found that coworkers view focal employees' development i-deals as more threatening to their status than flexibility i-deals, and status threat mediates the relationship between development i-deals and coworkers' acceptance. In addition, flexibility i-deals increase coworkers' perception of obtaining future i-deals more than development i-deals, and this perception mediates the relationship between flexibility i-deals and coworkers' acceptance. Furthermore, the results show that coworkers' relative leader–member exchange moderates the above relationships.

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你的收益对我来说是威胁还是机会？关于特殊交易和同事接受度的社会比较视角

特殊交易 (i-deals) 是指员工与雇主协商的定制工作安排和雇佣条件。学术界对了解 i-deals 接收者的反应给予了极大的关注。然而，很少有人注意到同事对 i-deals 的反应。本研究考察了同事对焦点员工的 i-deal 的反应。我们用 253 对员工-同事对的样本测试了我们的假设，发现与发展 i-deal 相比，同事更有可能接受焦点员工的灵活性 i-deals。具体来说，我们发现同事认为重点员工的发展 i-deals 比灵活性 i-deals 对他们的地位更具威胁，而地位威胁在发展 i-deals 和同事接受度之间的关系中起中介作用。此外，灵活性 i-deals 比开发 i-deals 更能增加同事对获得未来 i-deals 的感知，并且这种感知在灵活性 i-deals 和同事接受之间的关系中起到中介作用。此外，结果表明，同事的相对领导-成员交换调节了上述关系。