Asking how to fish vs. asking for fish: Antecedents and outcomes of different types of help‐seeking at work

Y Liu, FX Chen, JTJ Chiang, Z Wang… - Personnel …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In the modern workplace, it is virtually impossible to succeed without seeking any help from
others. Despite its widely recognized importance, several areas surrounding help‐seeking …

Employee help-seeking: Antecedents, consequences and new insights for future research

P Bamberger - Research in personnel and human resources …, 2009 - emerald.com
Although employee helping behaviors have been widely examined by organizational and
human resource management scholars, relatively little is known about the antecedents and …

Help-seeking at work: an integrative review, organizing framework and agenda for future research

K Chen, G Chen, Q Wu, W Liu, H Zhao - Nankai Business Review …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose The literature on help-seeking at work has experienced significant growth in the
past decades. However, our knowledge about this research domain remains fragmented …

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

D Cleavenger, WL Gardner, K Mhatre - Journal of Business and …, 2007 - Springer
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 …

Asking for help: A relational perspective on help seeking in the workplace

J Van der Rijt, P Van den Bossche… - Vocations and …, 2013 - Springer
In the context of the complexity of today's organizations, help seeking behavior is considered
as an important step to problem solving and learning in organizations. Yet, help seeking has …

To seek or not to seek: The relationship between help seeking and job performance evaluations as moderated by task‐relevant expertise

A Nadler, S Ellis, I Bar - Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The present study explored the relationship between level of employees' help‐seeking
behavior and their overall job evaluations. It was hypothesized that employees would seek …

The impact of help seeking on individual task performance: The moderating effect of help seekers' logics of action.

D Geller, PA Bamberger - Journal of Applied Psychology, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
Drawing from achievement-goal theory and the social psychological literature on help
seeking, we propose that it is the variance in the logic underpinning employees' help …

Why and when proactive helping does not lead to future help: The roles of psychological need satisfaction and interpersonal competence

NW Chi, MH Tu - Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2023 - Elsevier
Although the benefits of proactive helping (ie, providing help without being asked) are
recognized in the organizations, employees who proactively help others may not always …

How does workplace helping behavior step up or slack off? Integrating enrichment-based and depletion-based perspectives

W Lin, J Koopmann, M Wang - Journal of Management, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Although helping behavior at work is widely studied, little is known about the processes via
which help providers increase or decrease their helping behavior. In the current research …

Help-seeking and help-giving as an organizational routine: Continual engagement in innovative work

S Grodal, AJ Nelson, RM Siino - Academy of Management Journal, 2015 - journals.aom.org
The literature on help-giving behavior identifies individual-level factors that affect a help-
giver's decision to help another individual. Studying a context in which work was highly …