Deeds that help and words that hurt: helping and gossip as moderators of the relationship between leader-member exchange and advice network centrality

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• Personal Author:
  Bauer TN ; Erdogan B ; Walter J
• Description:
  We examine the relationship between leader-member exchange (LMX) quality and advice network centrality using multisource data from a sample of 250 retail employees and their respective managers in Turkey to test our hypothesized model of value and costs of being sought out for advice. Drawing upon the tenets of network generation theory (Nebus, 2006), we predict that the tendency of focal actors to help others and their own tendency to gossip would be behavioral moderators of the relationship between LMX quality and their advice network centrality. Consistent with network generation theory, our results reveal that LMX quality is positively related to centrality only for those actors with a high tendency to help coworkers and a low tendency to gossip about coworkers, suggesting that behaviors indicating helpfulness and discretion are necessary for high LMX members to maintain a central position in their work group's advice network. Implications and future research directions are discussed. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Mental Health Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Behavior Patterns Employees Humans Management Personnel Psychological Effects Psychology
• ISSN:
  0031-5826
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  185-214
• Volume:
  68
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20048388
• Citation:
  Pers Psychol 2015 Spring; 68(1):185-214
• Contact Point Address:
  Berrin Erdogan, School of Business, Portland State University, 631 SW Harrison Street, Portland, OR 97207
• Email:
  berrine@sba.pdx.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Performing Organization:
  Portland State University
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Personnel Psychology
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8cc74460f969c3524e06ff73ae592f96380e439d4049cbb33425d8ae84f304e5e448ff0190f4b1a69407f9053efb2d3192e9f6a835cfcd912c748f8d230919f2
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/203149/cdc_203149_DS1.pdf
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