727: Employee Helping: Connecting a Community of Researchers and Developing a Future Research Agenda (13695)

This caucus will provide a forum for researchers to discuss emerging topics in the area of employee helping. This will include discourse surrounding novel research themes, construct clarity and operationalization, and theoretical frameworks. It will also provide a setting for researchers create connections for potential collaboration in future research projects.

Employee helping is an important aspect of organizational citizenship behavior (Ehrhart, 2018). As the organizational citizenship behavior literature has grown (Podsakoff et al., 2018), the literature examining employee helping behavior has also flourished in tandem (Ehrhart, 2018). This caucus has three main areas of discussion that we see as valuable and worthy in promoting the conversation about helping in organizations: (1) The relationship between helping and overlapping constructs, including organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), (2) When and why is helping more beneficial or detrimental for helpers, help recipients, and organizations? And (3) promising avenues for future research.