Employee Cooperative Behavior in Organizations: A Vignette Experiment on the Relationship between Training and Helping Intentions

Autor/inn/en	van Gerwen, Nikki; Buskens, Vincent; van der Lippe, Tanja
Titel	Employee Cooperative Behavior in Organizations: A Vignette Experiment on the Relationship between Training and Helping Intentions
Quelle	In: International Journal of Training and Development, 22 (2018) 3, S.192-209 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1360-3736
DOI	10.1111/ijtd.12128
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Cooperation; Employees; Training; Intention; Helping Relationship; Behavior; Group Dynamics; Job Skills; Europe + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Co-operation; Kooperation; Employee; Arbeitnehmer; Beschäftigter; Ausbildung; Helfende Beziehung; Gruppendynamik; Produktive Fertigkeit; Europa
Abstract	The mutual-investment model predicts a positive relation between investments in training and employees' willingness to behave cooperatively. In this paper, we argue that the extent to which employees increase their cooperative behavior after receiving training depends on the type of training provided, the skillfulness of the employee and the cohesiveness of the team. Focusing on intentions to help coworkers as an indicator for cooperative behavior, we conducted a vignette experiment among 2388 employees working in 127 organizations from four European countries. Multilevel analyses show that training increases employees' intentions to help coworkers. Training promotes helping intentions the most when organizations provide general instead of firm-specific training and when given to employees with limited skills. Whereas employees in cohesive teams indicate higher intentions to help coworkers than employees in non-cohesive teams, training promotes helping intentions equally in both types of teams. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01