Economic downturns undermine workplace helping by promoting a zero-sum construal of success

• Main Authors: SIROLA, Nina, PITESA, Marko
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: construal of success; economic downturns; economic environment; social ecology; workplace helping; zero-sum; Human Resources Management; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4957; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/5956/viewcontent/amj.2015.0804.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Workplace helping is essential to the success of organizations and economies. Given the economic benefits of helping, it seems important that during difficult economic periods the amount of helping does not decline. In this research, we propose and show that it does. We argue that cues that signal t...