The effects of coworkers' development idiosyncratic deals on employees' cooperation intention

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (11) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Xiaoyan Zhang ◽  
Wenbing Wu ◽  
Yihua Zhang ◽  
Hui Deng ◽  
Yuanyuan Lan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Comparison ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Equity Theory ◽  
Task Interdependence ◽  
Idiosyncratic Deals ◽  
Comparison Theory ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
And Task

Idiosyncratic deals (i-deals) are individualized agreements of a nonstandard nature negotiated between employers and employees regarding employment terms, which are regarded as being beneficial for the organization. On the bases of social comparison theory and equity theory, we hypothesized that witnessing the development i-deals of their coworkers would trigger employees' feeling of unfairness, causing lower cooperation intention. We further hypothesized that perceived future i-deals and task interdependence would play moderating roles in this reduction. Participants were 284 employees in China. The results show that feelings of unfairness mediated the relationship between witnessing development i-deals and the witnesses' cooperation intention. The positive relationship between witnessing development i-deals and feelings of unfairness was weaker when employees perceived a stronger possibility of themselves obtaining a future i-deal, and a high level of task interdependence weakened the negative effect of feelings of unfairness on employees' cooperation intention.

The causal relationship between envy and depression: A cross-lagged regression analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (12) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Xinsheng Jiang ◽  
Jinyu Wang
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Social Comparison ◽  
Causal Relationship ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Gender Effect ◽  
Comparison Theory ◽  
Treatment Of Depression ◽  
Nonclinical Sample ◽  
Upward Social Comparison ◽  
The Relationship

The causal relationship between envy and depression is currently far from clear. We conducted a cross-lagged regression analysis of data on envy and depression, obtained from a nonclinical sample of 260 undergraduate students at two time points spaced 14 months apart. From the perspective of social comparison theory, the results show that although after 14 months envy positively predicted depression, depression did not predict envy. The envy–depression relationship is, thus, a unidirectional causality. In addition, there was no overall gender effect on the relationship between envy and depression. Our finding of the effect of upward social comparison on the envy–depression relationship provides guidance for the treatment of depression in clinical practice.

scholarly journals Supervisor Knowledge Sharing and Employee Knowledge Sharing: The Moderating Roles of Learning Goal Orientation and Affective Organizational Commitment

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 4176
Author(s):  
Seckyoung Loretta Kim
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Affective Organizational Commitment ◽  
Learning Goal ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship

Recognizing the importance of knowledge sharing, this study adopted social learning and social exchange perspectives to understand when employees may engage in knowledge sharing. Using data collected from 192 employees in various South Korean organizations, the findings demonstrate that there is a positive relationship between supervisor knowledge sharing and employee knowledge sharing. As employees perceive a high level of supervisor knowledge sharing, they are likely to engage in knowledge sharing based on social learning and social exchange theories. Furthermore, the study explores the moderating effects of learning goal orientation and affective organizational commitment in the relationship between supervisor knowledge sharing and employee knowledge sharing. The result supports the hypothesis that the relationship between supervisor knowledge sharing and employee knowledge sharing is strengthened when there is a high level of affective organizational commitment. Employees who obtain valuable knowledge from their supervisors are likely to engage in knowledge sharing when they are emotionally attached to their organization. However, in contrast to the hypothesis, the positive relationship between supervisor knowledge sharing and employee knowledge sharing was stronger at the lower levels of learning goal orientation (LGO) than at the higher levels of LGO.

Career Plateau and Turnover Intention in Chinese Employees: Career Anchor as Moderator

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 757-766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yueran Wen ◽  
Liu Liu
Keyword(s):  
Turnover Intention ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Career Anchor ◽  
Career Plateau ◽  
Strong Positive Relationship ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

Based on a survey of 147 Chinese employees, we examined the relationship between perceived career plateau and turnover intention, and the moderating role of career anchor in challenge in this process. We hypothesized that perceived career plateau would be positively related to turnover intention, and that this relationship would be stronger in employees with a higher level of career anchor in challenge than in those with a lower level. The results showed that perceived career plateau had a strong positive relationship with turnover intention, especially in employees with a high level of career anchor in challenge. These findings have implications for research in career development and turnover intention, as well as in management practices.

Characterizing response quantity on academic social Q&A sites: a multidiscipline comparison of linguistic characteristics of questions

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Li ◽  
Anrunze Li ◽  
Xue Song ◽  
Xinran Li ◽  
Kun Huang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Function Words ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Five Disciplines ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Academic Communication ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeAs academic social Q&A networking websites become more popular, scholars are increasingly using them to meet their information needs by asking academic questions. However, compared with other types of social media, scholars are less active on these sites, resulting in a lower response quantity for some questions. This paper explores the factors that help explain how to ask questions that generate more responses and examines the impact of different disciplines on response quantity.Design/methodology/approachThe study examines 1,968 questions in five disciplines on the academic social Q&A platform ResearchGate Q&A and explores how the linguistic characteristics of these questions affect the number of responses. It uses a range of methods to statistically analyze the relationship between these linguistic characteristics and the number of responses, and conducts comparisons between disciplines.FindingsThe findings indicate that some linguistic characteristics, such as sadness, positive emotion and second-person pronouns, have a positive effect on response quantity; conversely, a high level of function words and first-person pronouns has a negative effect. However, the impacts of these linguistic characteristics vary across disciplines.Originality/valueThis study provides support for academic social Q&A platforms to assist scholars in asking richer questions that are likely to generate more answers across disciplines, thereby promoting improved academic communication among scholars.

Terrorism and Democracy

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-379
Author(s):  
Andrey Korotayev ◽  
Ilya Vaskin ◽  
Daniil Romanov
Keyword(s):  
Positive Relationship ◽  
The Other ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Democratic Regime ◽  
Political Regimes ◽  
Powerful Factor ◽  
Terrorist Activity ◽  
Low Intensity ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This article proposes a new explanation of the positive correlation between democracy and terrorism detected in many previous studies. It is shown that this might be accounted for by the fact that factional democracies are subjected to more terrorist attacks than the other political regimes. A positive relationship between the democratic regime and the level of terrorist activity can be obtained due to the inclusion of factional democracies in the sample of democratic states. If factional democracies are excluded from the sample, the relationship between the level of terrorist activity and the democratic regime is negative. The analysis allows to maintain that factional democracy is a rather powerful factor of a high level of terrorist activity, while non-factional democracy turns out to be rather a statistically significant predictor of a relatively low intensity of terrorist attacks.

scholarly journals Bringing the Leader Back in: Why, How, and When Leadership Empowerment Behavior Shapes Coworker Conflict

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 599-636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mladen Adamovic ◽  
Peter Gahan ◽  
Jesse E. Olsen ◽  
Bill Harley ◽  
Joshua Healy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Task Conflict ◽  
Relationship Conflict ◽  
Cognitive Trust ◽  
Trust In Leaders ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Role Description ◽  
High Level ◽  
Organizational Hierarchies ◽  
Conflict Research ◽  
And Task

With the diffusion of team-based work organizations and flatter organizational hierarchies, many leaders empower employees to perform their work. Empowerment creates an interesting tension regarding coworker conflict, enhancing trust and giving employees more autonomy to prevent conflict, while also increasing workload and the potential for coworker conflict. Recent conflict research has focused on how characteristics of individuals, groups, and tasks contribute to conflict among coworkers. We extend this work by exploring the role of leader empowerment behavior (LEB) in influencing coworker conflict. Our model integrates research on LEB and coworker conflict to help organizations manage coworker conflict effectively. To test our model at the workplace level, we utilize data drawn from matched surveys of leaders and employees in 317 workplaces. We find that LEB relates negatively to relationship and task conflict through affective and cognitive trust in leaders. We further find that LEB relates negatively to relationship and task conflict through reduced workload, but only when employees have a clear role description. In contrast, if employees have unclear roles, LEB has a U-curve relationship with workload: a moderate level of LEB reduces workload, but a high level of LEB increases workload, in turn increasing coworker conflict. Finally, relationship conflict has a direct negative effect on task performance, whereas task conflict has an indirect negative effect through relationship conflict.

scholarly journals Green Economic Efficiency Evaluation Based on the GMM Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Haohui Wang ◽  
Gang Peng
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Efficiency ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Efficiency Evaluation ◽  
Significant Positive Relationship ◽  
Economic Growth Model ◽  
Green Development ◽  
The Difference ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship

This paper uses a panel data sample of 30 resource-based cities (hereinafter referred to as R-B cities) in China from 2009 to 2019, constructs the green economic efficiency level (hereinafter referred to as GEE) using the super-SBM model, incorporates the GEE value into the endogenous economic growth model, combines the difference equation and the level equation, and estimates the relationship between the green efficiency level and economic growth using the systematic GMM method. The study came to the following major conclusions: First, green development in Chinese resource-based cities is moderately high, and green economic efficiency varies by region, with a relatively low level of GEE in the central region and a relatively high level of GEE in the eastern and western regions. Second, on both static and dynamic dimensions, Chinese resource-based cities can be classified into seven types based on their level of green development. Third, the GEE of Chinese resource-based cities has a significant positive relationship with economic growth, with the effect of green economic efficiency on economic growth being stronger in the central and northeastern regions.

scholarly journals The Impact of Debt Capacity on Firm’s Growth: (A Case Study of Selected Firms from Pharmaceutical Industry in Pakistan)

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-23
Author(s):  
IHTESHAM KHAN ◽  
SYED WAQAR AHMAD SHAH ◽  
ASAD KHAN
Keyword(s):  
Pharmaceutical Industry ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Significant Positive Relationship ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Debt Capacity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The ultimate goal of all activities within organizations is to achieve higher growth and finding new sources for mounting firm capital. This study aims to investigate debt capacity as the source of firm capital and its impact on firm’s growth. The objectives of this research to shows the relationship between market to book ratio and debt to asset ratio. Multiple liner regression is used between Growth and book leverage. By selected pharmaceutical sector that has been listed at Karachi stock exchange in Pakistan. In this research 8 companies are selected that are listed at Karachi Stock Exchange during the period of 2005-2014. In this paper secondary data is used. The result reveals a significant positive relationship between the debt to asset ratio and market to book ratio and debt to asset ratio. It displays that there is no negative effect of debt capacity on firm’s growth.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment among Employees of a Selected Tertiary Educational Institution in Northwest Haiti

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (Issue 1 (January to March 2021)) ◽  
pp. 33-40
Author(s):  
Willy Lima ◽  
Daniel Allida
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Motivating Factors ◽  
Normative Commitment ◽  
Strong Positive Relationship ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship

This study sought to investigate the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment among employees of a selected tertiary educational institution at Northwest of Haiti. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 55 employees. It was found that there is a moderate level of job satisfaction and high level of continuance and normative commitment among employees. It was also found that there is a strong positive relationship between job satisfaction and affective commitment and a weak positive relationship between job satisfaction and normative commitment. It was therefore recommended that administrators should seek to find ways and means to provide extrinsic and intrinsic motivating factors in order to prevent job dissatisfaction with regrettable consequences for the institution when employees may decide to leave their organization.

De relatie tussen expertisediversiteit en teaminnovativiteit: de modererende werking van taakafhankelijkheid en taakflexibiliteit

2008 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerben van der Vegt
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Task Interdependence ◽  
Archival Data ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Joint Effects ◽  
Team Innovation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
And Task

The relationship between expertise diversity and team innovation: the moderating effect of task interdependence and task flexibility The relationship between expertise diversity and team innovation: the moderating effect of task interdependence and task flexibility G.S. van der Vegt, Gedrag & Organisatie, volume 21, June 2008, nr. 2, pp. 170-183 In this article we examine the joint effects of expertise diversity, task interdependence, and task flexibility on team innovation. We argue that expertise diversity will be unrelated to team innovation when task interdependence is low. When task interdependence is high, the direction of the relationship – positive or negative – is argued to depend on the degree of task flexibility. We tested this expectation using survey and archival data from 57 teams working in the oil and gas industry. Results strongly support the expectations.

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