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Help-seeking: testing the effects of task interdependence and normativeness on employees’ propensity to seek help

verfasst von: Dean Cleavenger, William L. Gardner, Ketan Mhatre

Erschienen in: Journal of Business and Psychology | Ausgabe 3/2007

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This study explores the effects of task interdependence (high versus low) and helping norms (supportive versus non-supportive) on propensity to seek help. Participants were most likely to seek help when: (1) task interdependence was high, and (2) supportive help-seeking norms were operative. A 2-way interaction also emerged. Under the non-supportive norms condition, help-seeking was greatest for high versus low levels of task interdependence; when supportive norms were operative, relatively high levels of help-seeking arose across task interdependence conditions. No support for the hypotheses that high self-esteem, high task specific self-efficacy, and low achievement motivation would increase help-seeking was obtained.

Vorheriger Artikel Dimensionality of individualism–collectivism and measurement equivalence of Triandis and Gelfand’s scale

Nächster Artikel Influences of traits and assessment methods on human resource practitioners’ evaluations of job applicants

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Titel: Help-seeking: testing the effects of task interdependence and normativeness on employees’ propensity to seek help
verfasst von: Dean Cleavenger
William L. Gardner
Ketan Mhatre
Publikationsdatum: 01.03.2007
Verlag: Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
Erschienen in: Journal of Business and Psychology / Ausgabe 3/2007
Print ISSN: 0889-3268
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-353X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-006-9032-7

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