Helping others but Hurting Yourself? The underlying mechanism linking helping behavior to task performance
Helping behavior positively influences organizational effectiveness, which is why the importance of this behavior is highlighted in Chinese enterprises, and employees are encouraged to engage in it. However, from an actor-centric perspective, helping behavior is not always beneficial. In this paper,...
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| author | Xiaona Bao Wenfei Gao Yifei Shen Zhenduo Zhang Xiaojing Shao |
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| description | Helping behavior positively influences organizational effectiveness, which is why the importance of this behavior is highlighted in Chinese enterprises, and employees are encouraged to engage in it. However, from an actor-centric perspective, helping behavior is not always beneficial. In this paper, cognitive-affective personality system theory is applied to link helping behavior to task performance, thus enhancing the understanding of the effects of helping behavior. By adopting a two-wave questionnaire survey, data from 202 leader-subordinate dyads were gathered. Then, the BruceR (V0.7.2) package of Rstudio (V4.1.1) was used to generate a multi-mediated moderation model and test the hypotheses. The following results were obtained: 1) Helping behavior was negatively associated with task performance. 2) Cognitive irritation and emotional exhaustion serially mediated the influences of helping behavior on task performance. 3) Team-level communal goal striving moderated the indirect influence of helping behavior on task performance; the indirect influence was only significant when the levels of team communal goal striving were low. From an actor-centric perspective, this paper presents evidence for the connection between helping behavior and task performance. Numerous implications for management approaches are presented to maximize the management of helping behavior. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-eb53fa21ecd74427acd23cb1cff826ee2023-12-02T07:01:06ZengElsevierHeliyon2405-84402023-11-01911e21024Helping others but Hurting Yourself? The underlying mechanism linking helping behavior to task performanceXiaona Bao0Wenfei Gao1Yifei Shen2Zhenduo Zhang3Xiaojing Shao4School of Management, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian, ChinaSchool of Economics and Management, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, ChinaSchool of Economics and Management, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, ChinaSchool of Economics and Management, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China; Corresponding author.School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, ChinaHelping behavior positively influences organizational effectiveness, which is why the importance of this behavior is highlighted in Chinese enterprises, and employees are encouraged to engage in it. However, from an actor-centric perspective, helping behavior is not always beneficial. In this paper, cognitive-affective personality system theory is applied to link helping behavior to task performance, thus enhancing the understanding of the effects of helping behavior. By adopting a two-wave questionnaire survey, data from 202 leader-subordinate dyads were gathered. Then, the BruceR (V0.7.2) package of Rstudio (V4.1.1) was used to generate a multi-mediated moderation model and test the hypotheses. The following results were obtained: 1) Helping behavior was negatively associated with task performance. 2) Cognitive irritation and emotional exhaustion serially mediated the influences of helping behavior on task performance. 3) Team-level communal goal striving moderated the indirect influence of helping behavior on task performance; the indirect influence was only significant when the levels of team communal goal striving were low. From an actor-centric perspective, this paper presents evidence for the connection between helping behavior and task performance. Numerous implications for management approaches are presented to maximize the management of helping behavior.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844023082324Helping behaviorTask performanceCognitive irritationEmotional exhaustionTeam communal goal striving |
| spellingShingle | Xiaona Bao Wenfei Gao Yifei Shen Zhenduo Zhang Xiaojing Shao Helping others but Hurting Yourself? The underlying mechanism linking helping behavior to task performance Heliyon Helping behavior Task performance Cognitive irritation Emotional exhaustion Team communal goal striving |
| title | Helping others but Hurting Yourself? The underlying mechanism linking helping behavior to task performance |
| title_full | Helping others but Hurting Yourself? The underlying mechanism linking helping behavior to task performance |
| title_fullStr | Helping others but Hurting Yourself? The underlying mechanism linking helping behavior to task performance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Helping others but Hurting Yourself? The underlying mechanism linking helping behavior to task performance |
| title_short | Helping others but Hurting Yourself? The underlying mechanism linking helping behavior to task performance |
| title_sort | helping others but hurting yourself the underlying mechanism linking helping behavior to task performance |
| topic | Helping behavior Task performance Cognitive irritation Emotional exhaustion Team communal goal striving |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844023082324 |
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