The influence of moral emotions on online helping behavior: The mediating role of moral reasoning

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (12) ◽  
pp. 1559 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng WU ◽  
Jing FAN ◽  
Huashan LIU
Keyword(s):  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Helping Behavior ◽  
Moral Emotions ◽  
Mediating Role

scholarly journals How Authoritarian Leadership Affects Employee's Helping Behavior? The Mediating Role of Rumination and Moderating Role of Psychological Ownership

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Asim ◽  
Liu Zhiying ◽  
Muhammad Athar Nadeem ◽  
Usman Ghani ◽  
Mahwish Arshad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Helping Behavior ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Psychological Ownership ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
Authoritarian Leadership ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Adverse Impacts ◽  
Helping Behaviors ◽  
The Relationship

Interpersonal helping behaviors, i.e., voluntarily assisting colleagues for their workplace related problems, have received immense amount of scholarly attention due to their significant impacts on organizational effectiveness. Among several other factors, authoritarian leadership style could influence helping behavior within organizations. Furthermore, this relationship could be mediated by workplace stressor such as rumination, known as a critical psychological health component leading to depressive symptoms, hopelessness and pessimism. In the meantime, less research attention has devoted to probe the crucial role of psychological ownership, which can buffer the adverse effects of authoritarian leadership upon rumination. Building on conservation of resources theory, this study investigates the adverse impacts of authoritarian leadership on employees' helping behaviors through mediating role of rumination, and also examines the moderating effect of psychological ownership between the relationship of authoritarian leadership and rumination. The data were collected from 264 employees in education and banking sectors and the results show: (i) authoritarian leadership has adverse impacts on helping behavior, (ii) rumination mediates the relationship between authoritarian leadership and employees' helping behaviors, and (iii) psychological ownership moderates the positive relationship between authoritarian leadership and rumination. This study concludes that authoritarian leadership has adverse impacts upon helping behavior, which needs to be controlled/minimized. The findings are of great significance for managers, employees, and organizations in terms of policy implications. The limitations and future research directions are also discussed.

Overcoming organizational politics with tenacity and passion for work: benefits for helping behaviors

2022 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk De Clercq ◽  
Chengli Shu ◽  
Menglei Gu
Keyword(s):  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Organizational Politics ◽  
Helping Behavior ◽  
Amazon Mechanical Turk ◽  
Personal Resources ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Helping Behaviors ◽  
Passion For Work

PurposeThis study unpacks the relationship between employees' perceptions of organizational politics and their helping behavior, by explicating a mediating role of employees' affective commitment and moderating roles of their tenacity and passion for work.Design/methodology/approachQuantitative survey data were collected from 476 employees, through Amazon Mechanical Turk.FindingsBeliefs that the organizational climate is predicated on self-serving behaviors diminish helping behaviors, and this effect arises because employees become less emotionally attached to their organization. This mediating role of affective commitment is less salient to the extent that employees persevere in the face of challenges and feel passionate about working hard.Practical implicationsFor human resource managers, this study pinpoints a lack of positive organization-oriented energy as a key mechanism by which perceptions about a negative political climate steer employees away from assisting organizational colleagues on a voluntary basis. They can contain this mechanism by ensuring that employees are equipped with energy-boosting personal resources.Originality/valueThis study addresses employees' highly salient emotional reactions to organizational politics and pinpoints the critical function of affective commitment for explaining the escalation of perceived organizational politics into diminished helping behavior. It also identifies buffering effects linked to two pertinent personal resources.

From Faux-Social to Pro-Social: The Mediating Role of Copresence in Developing Expectations of Social Support in a Game

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donghee Yvette Wohn
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Helping Behavior ◽  
Instrumental Support ◽  
Network Games ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Simple Action

Social network games—games that incorporate network data from social network sites—heavily rely on helping behavior between players as a central mechanism of play. Does this “faux social” behavior still generate expectations of social support among players? An experiment (N = 88) was conducted to examine the effect of helping on copresence and perceived social support between strangers playing the Facebook game Cityville. Three types of social support were examined: instrumental support within the game, instrumental support outside of the game, and emotional support. Findings indicate that the simple action of being helped in a game generates copresence, the feeling of proximity in a virtual environment. Copresence was a positive predictor of all three types of perceived social support but had highest explanatory power for instrumental support within the game.

scholarly journals Improve Nurses’ Engagement of Public Sector Hospitals in pandemic of COVID-19 through Authentic Leadership: Mediating role of Moral Emotions and Moderating role of Perceived Coronavirus Threat

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Faisal Malik ◽  
Muhammad Asif Khan ◽  
Saqib Mahmood ◽  
Naveed Ilyas
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Condition ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Organizational Identification ◽  
Authentic Leadership ◽  
Moral Emotions ◽  
Twin Cities ◽  
Perceived Threat ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background: The study highlighted the issue of the engagement of nurses in the public hospital sector.Objectives: The objective of the current study was to determine the impact of authentic leadership on the engagement of nurses in the mediating role of moral emotions. The perceived threat of coronavirus was considered to be a boundary condition of the relationship. DesignMethod: The study was conducted in accordance with the Positivism Research Philosophy Guidelines, followed by a deductive approach and data was collected through self-directed questionnaires. 134 responses were collected from nurses working in various public sector hospitals operating in twin cities in Pakistan, in particular public sector hospitals where coronavirus patients are being treated. There are 277,402 confirmed cases of Coronavirus, being treated in 11 designation hospitals in twin cities of Pakistan. Results: The result was produced with the help of Amos. Path diagrams for mediation and moderation hypotheses were obtained and interpreted accordingly. The results showed that compassionate individuals were selfless even in the Covid-19 pandemic. Elevation and gratitude as a moral emotion have a more serious effect on the perceived threat to coronavirus.Conclusion: In the current scenario, the organization should identify the nursing staff with full compassion as it has been identified that the compassionate individual performs his or her duties even in the worst situation or during the Covid-19 pandemic.What is already known about the topic?Authentic Leadership are having the potential to influence their followers through personal and organizational Identification and then effect their cognitions.What this paper adds:The current study add novelty and expanded the knowledge about authentic leadership and theory of authentic leadership since it add:· Perceived coronavirus threat as boundary condition· Moral Emotions· Engagement

The More You Say, the Less They Hear

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 159-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsbeth D. Asbeek Brusse ◽  
Marieke L. Fransen ◽  
Edith G. Smit
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Protection ◽  
Entertainment Education ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Attitude Measures ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms

Abstract. This study examined the effects of disclosure messages in entertainment-education (E-E) on attitudes toward hearing protection and attitude toward the source. In addition, the (mediating) role of the underlying mechanisms (i.e., transportation, identification, and counterarguing) was studied. In an experiment (N = 336), three different disclosure messages were compared with a no-disclosure condition. The results show that more explicit disclosure messages negatively affect transportation and identification and stimulate the generation of counterarguments. In addition, the more explicit disclosure messages affect both attitude measures via two of these processes (i.e., transportation and counterarguing). Less explicit disclosure messages do not have this effect. Implications of the findings are discussed.

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