The mutual‐investment model predicts a positive relation between investments in training and employees’ willingness to behave cooperatively. In this paper, we argue that the extent to which employees increase their cooperative behavior after receiving training depends on the type of training provided, the skillfulness of the employee and the cohesiveness of the team. Focusing on intentions to help coworkers as an indicator for cooperative behavior, we conducted a vignette experiment among 2388 employees working in 127 organizations from four European countries. Multilevel analyses show that training increases employees’ intentions to help coworkers. Training promotes helping intentions the most when organizations provide general instead of firm‐specific training and when given to employees with limited skills. Whereas employees in cohesive teams indicate higher intentions to help coworkers than employees in non‐cohesive teams, training promotes helping intentions equally in both types of teams.

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组织中的员工合作行为：关于培训与帮助意愿之间关系的小插图实验

共同投资模型预测培训投资与员工的合作意愿之间存在正相关关系。在本文中，我们认为员工在接受培训后增强合作行为的程度取决于所提供培训的类型，员工的熟练程度和团队的凝聚力。我们着重于帮助同事的意图来作为合作行为的指标，我们对来自四个欧洲国家127个组织的2388名员工进行了小插图实验。多层次分析表明，培训增加了员工帮助同事的意愿。当组织提供一般性培训而不是针对公司的培训时，以及培训技能有限的员工时，培训会最大程度地提高帮助意愿。