When and How Workplace Helping Promotes Deviance? An Actor-Centric Perspective
Despite the vast academic interest in workplace helping, little is known about the impact of different types of helping behaviors on physiological and behavioral ramifications of helpers. By taking the actor-centric perspective, this study attempts to investigate the differential impacts of three ki...
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| author | Hao Zhang Chunpei Lin Chunpei Lin Xiumei Lai Xiayi Liu Xiayi Liu |
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| description | Despite the vast academic interest in workplace helping, little is known about the impact of different types of helping behaviors on physiological and behavioral ramifications of helpers. By taking the actor-centric perspective, this study attempts to investigate the differential impacts of three kinds of helping behaviors (caring, coaching, and substituting helping) on helpers themselves from the theory of resource conservation. To test our model, 512 Chinese employees were surveyed, utilizing a three-wave time-lagged design, and we found that caring and coaching helping were negatively associated with workplace deviance, whereas substituting helping was positively associated with subsequent workplace deviance. Emotional exhaustion mediated the effects of three helping behaviors on subsequent workplace deviance. Moreover, employees' extrinsic career goals influenced the strength of the relationship between three helping behaviors and emotional exhaustion and the indirect effects of three helping behaviors on subsequent workplace deviance via emotional exhaustion. We discuss the implications of our findings for both theories and practices. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a4f88405e976457699c3e908111ac9422022-12-21T17:22:34ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-01-011210.3389/fpsyg.2021.795610795610When and How Workplace Helping Promotes Deviance? An Actor-Centric PerspectiveHao Zhang0Chunpei Lin1Chunpei Lin2Xiumei Lai3Xiayi Liu4Xiayi Liu5School of Business Administration, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou, ChinaSchool of Business Administration, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou, ChinaBusiness Management Research Center, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou, ChinaSchool of Business Administration, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou, ChinaSchool of Business Administration, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou, ChinaBusiness Management Research Center, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou, ChinaDespite the vast academic interest in workplace helping, little is known about the impact of different types of helping behaviors on physiological and behavioral ramifications of helpers. By taking the actor-centric perspective, this study attempts to investigate the differential impacts of three kinds of helping behaviors (caring, coaching, and substituting helping) on helpers themselves from the theory of resource conservation. To test our model, 512 Chinese employees were surveyed, utilizing a three-wave time-lagged design, and we found that caring and coaching helping were negatively associated with workplace deviance, whereas substituting helping was positively associated with subsequent workplace deviance. Emotional exhaustion mediated the effects of three helping behaviors on subsequent workplace deviance. Moreover, employees' extrinsic career goals influenced the strength of the relationship between three helping behaviors and emotional exhaustion and the indirect effects of three helping behaviors on subsequent workplace deviance via emotional exhaustion. We discuss the implications of our findings for both theories and practices.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.795610/fullcaring helpingcoaching helpingsubstituting helpingworkplace devianceemotional exhaustionextrinsic career goals |
| spellingShingle | Hao Zhang Chunpei Lin Chunpei Lin Xiumei Lai Xiayi Liu Xiayi Liu When and How Workplace Helping Promotes Deviance? An Actor-Centric Perspective Frontiers in Psychology caring helping coaching helping substituting helping workplace deviance emotional exhaustion extrinsic career goals |
| title | When and How Workplace Helping Promotes Deviance? An Actor-Centric Perspective |
| title_full | When and How Workplace Helping Promotes Deviance? An Actor-Centric Perspective |
| title_fullStr | When and How Workplace Helping Promotes Deviance? An Actor-Centric Perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | When and How Workplace Helping Promotes Deviance? An Actor-Centric Perspective |
| title_short | When and How Workplace Helping Promotes Deviance? An Actor-Centric Perspective |
| title_sort | when and how workplace helping promotes deviance an actor centric perspective |
| topic | caring helping coaching helping substituting helping workplace deviance emotional exhaustion extrinsic career goals |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.795610/full |
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