The Receipt of Task-Related Help: Developing and Validating a Scale
| dc.contributor.author | Law, Denise | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-08-23T15:42:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-08-23T15:42:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-08-23 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2018-08-20 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Helping behaviors have been subjected to a substantial amount of research attention. However, organizational researchers have disproportionately focused on the help giver, neglecting the recipient of help. To stimulate future research on the recipient of help, I developed a receipt of task-related help scale. In Study 1, I adopted an inductive approach to generate examples of different types of task-related helping behaviors that employees receive at work. Study 1 revealed three general types of task-related helping behaviors - namely, materials, labor, and knowledge. The results of Study 1 were used to guide item development for the receipt of task-related help scale. In Study 2, I provided evidence of the items’ substantive validity. In Study 3, I explored the factor structure of the scale. In Study 4, I verified that the scale assesses three dimensions of task-related help that employees can receive. In Study 5, I developed an initial nomological network for the receipt of task-related help. I hope this research will stimulate future research to adopt the recipient’s perspective to understand helping behaviors at work. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/13654 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.pending | false | |
| dc.publisher | University of Waterloo | en |
| dc.subject | task-related helping behaviors, receiving help | en |
| dc.title | The Receipt of Task-Related Help: Developing and Validating a Scale | en |
| dc.type | Master Thesis | en |
| uws-etd.degree | Master of Arts | en |
| uws-etd.degree.department | Psychology | en |
| uws-etd.degree.discipline | Psychology | en |
| uws-etd.degree.grantor | University of Waterloo | en |
| uws.contributor.advisor | Brown, Douglas | |
| uws.contributor.advisor | Beck, James | |
| uws.contributor.affiliation1 | Faculty of Arts | en |
| uws.peerReviewStatus | Unreviewed | en |
| uws.published.city | Waterloo | en |
| uws.published.country | Canada | en |
| uws.published.province | Ontario | en |
| uws.scholarLevel | Graduate | en |
| uws.typeOfResource | Text | en |