Harmful Help: The Costs of Backing up Behavior in Teams

• Main Authors: Barnes, Christopher M., Hollenbeck, J. R., WAGNER, David Turley, DeRue, D. S., Nahrgang, J. D., Schwind, K. M.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
• Subjects: team performance; backing-up behavior; helping behavior; workload; dependence; Business
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/1746; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/2745/viewcontent/Barnes__Hollenbeck__Wagner__DeRue__Nahrgang____Schwind__2008____JAP___Harmful_Help___Costs_of_backing_up_behavior_in_teams_clean.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Prior research on backing-up behavior has indicated that it is beneficial to teams (C. O. L. H. Porter, 2005; C. O. L. H. Porter et al., 2003). This literature has focused on how backing-up behavior aids backup recipients in tasks in which workload is unevenly distributed among team members. The aut...