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

By Peter A. Bamberger. 2009

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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A self-regulation approach to understanding citizenship behavior in organizations (2012, background): “Likewise, as noted earlier, OCBs may sometimes be performed reactively, for example, in response to a request for help (e.g., Bamberger, 2009).”
Help-Seeking and Help-Giving as an Organizational Routine: Continual Engagement in Innovative Work (2015, background): “Well-defined tasks bear more similarity to the kinds of tasks that have been studied in the existing literature (Bamberger, 2009; Flynn & Lake, 2008).”
IntroAssist: A Tool to Support Writing Introductory Help Requests (2018, background): “Our work answers the call to better facilitate these complex interactions by facilitating the writing of introductory help requests in informal workplace contexts where there is likely to be limited shared trust and requirements to help each other [5,57].”
Are male leaders penalized for seeking help? The influence of gender and asking behaviors on competence perceptions (2015, background): “Second, the study expands the types of behaviors considered in the gender and leadership literature to include help seeking, which can assist leaders in obtaining valuable resources (Bamberger, 2009) but at the same time diminish perceptions of their competence (DePaulo, 1978).”
Human Resource Systems and Helping in Organizations: A Relational Perspective (2011, background): “Receiving help can place the beneficiary in a position of dependence on the help-giver (Bamberger, 2009).”
Why a Central Network Position Isn't Enough: The Role of Motivation and Ability for Knowledge Sharing in Employee Networks (2011, background): “However, knowledge sharing in such networks can be problematic (Hansen, 1999; Obstfeld, 2005; Reagans & McEvily, 2003) and may even be perceived as threatening, because of the potential psychological and social costs involved (Bamberger, 2009; Cabrera & Cabrera, 2002).”
Political Skill and Work Outcomes: A Theoretical Extension, Meta-Analytic Investigation, and Agenda for the Future (2015, background): “Bandura’s (1991) social cognitive theory suggests that individuals determine socially appropriate behavior based on information and cues from others and their surroundings.”
Why individuals in larger teams perform worse (2012, background): “Help seeking is a request for remedy that promotes perceptions of supportive help receipt (Bamberger, 2009; Flynn & Lake, 2008) as well as performance (Mueller & Kamdar, 2011).”