 Social influence of a coworker: A test of the effect of employee and coworker exchange ideologies on employees' exchange qualitiesRiki Takeuchi, Seokhwa Yun and Kin Fai Ellick Wong Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2011, vol. 115, issue 2, 226-237 Abstract: Integrating social comparison and social influence perspective within a social exchange theoretical framework, we examine how the exchange ideologies of employees and their coworkers affect the quality of the employees' social exchanges. Drawing from social exchange theory, we hypothesize that the exchange ideology of a focal employee has a negative relationship with the quality of his/her social exchange with the organization (i.e., felt obligation) and the quality of his/her social exchange with a leader (i.e., leader-member exchange), both of which are related to task performance. Furthermore, we propose that a coworker close to the employee acts as a social referent and provides cues to exert influence on these relationships. Using data collected from 374 (employee-coworker-manager) triads in Hong Kong, we find support for the aforementioned relationships as well as the moderating roles of a coworker's exchange ideology. Keywords: Coworker; influence; Social; information; processing; Exchange; ideology; Social; exchange; relationships; Task; performance (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jobhdp:v:115:y:2011:i:2:p:226-237 Access Statistics for this article Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes is currently edited by John M. Schaubroeck More articles in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes from Elsevier |
Is your work missing from RePEc? Here is how to contribute.
Questions or problems? Check the EconPapers FAQ or send mail to .
EconPapers is hosted by the
School of Business at Örebro University.