Economic cycles as a source of social influence on individuals

Širola, Nina

doi:10.1111/spc3.12452

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“…Finally, in a sample of freelancers who were purportedly hired to evaluate the work on an intern, those who anticipated an economic downturn were less likely to give constructive feedback to the intern when given the opportunity to do so. Other laboratory experiments have likewise found that signals of a recession lead people to distribute less resources to others (Fisman, Jakiela, & Kariv, 2015;Sirola, 2019Sirola, , 2020.…”

Section: Economic Crisis Logicmentioning

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The Conflicting Impact of COVID-19’s Health and Economic Crises on Helping

Shoss

Horan

DiStaso

et al. 2020

Group & Organization Management

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Helping behaviors are considered critical for business and societal recovery in light of economic crises and natural disasters, including the COVID-19 pandemic that has both economic and health disaster elements. However, because the current COVID-19 pandemic has both of these elements, it is unclear how helping may be impacted. Economic crisis research suggests that such events are associated with less helping, whereas disaster research suggests that such events are associated with greater helping. We pair the event system theory (Morgeson, F. P., Mitchell, T. R., & Liu, D. (2015). Event system theory: An event-oriented approach to the organizational sciences. Academy of Management Review, 40(4), 515-537) with these two logics (economic downturn and disaster) to suggest that health and economic threats within the COVID-19 pandemic operate with potentially opposing forces on helping-related outcomes. To test these ideas at a macro-level, we examined internet search volume for recession, COVID-19, and interest in helping. At a micro-level, we examined the relationships between work- hour insecurity and perceived job-related COVID-19 risk—two salient COVID-19-related economic and health threats—and helping customers and coworkers. Consistent with economic crisis logic, macro-level concern about recession was negatively associated with interest in helping. Moreover, at the individual level, work-hour insecurity negatively predicted helping coworkers. Consistent with disaster logic, at the individual level, perceived job-related COVID-19 threat was positively associated with helping coworkers and negatively associated with helping customers. These findings suggest that the specific feature of the COVID-19 event system (economic versus health) and the target (organizational insiders versus outsiders) matter for shaping helping behavior. These findings have implications for helping during crises that involve economic and/or disaster elements.

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Section: Economic Crisis Logicmentioning

confidence: 94%

The Conflicting Impact of COVID-19’s Health and Economic Crises on Helping

Shoss

Horan

DiStaso

et al. 2020

Group & Organization Management

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“…Our study on work–life reconciliation in Lebanon contributes to work–life literature in several ways. Drawing upon research on the impact of the state of the economy and the legal environment on individual behaviour (Bianchi, 2016; Sirola, 2019, 2020), we examine how managers and employees in Lebanese organisations respond to this unique context characterised by economic, financial and political instability and weak labour protection. More generally, we show how work and nonwork responsibilities can be reconciled in a satisfying manner in less supportive contexts by identifying those types of support resources that are most effective when formal support at the national and organisational level hardly exists.…”

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Managing work and nonwork responsibilities when labour protection is weak: The role of family supportive supervisor behaviours

et al. 2022

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Knowledge concerning the reconciliation of work and life in developing countries with weak labour protection and little governmental support (e.g. statutory work–life support) is still very limited. In this mixed‐method study, we explore how employees manage their work and nonwork responsibilities in Lebanon—a developing country with poor national and organisational work–life support. Findings from a qualitative study of 10 blue‐ (BC),10 white‐collar (WC) workers and 10 HR professionals from companies in various industries identified contextual challenges and strategies to reconcile work and nonwork responsibilities. In a quantitative study based on a survey of 269 employees, we examined the effect of family supportive supervisor behaviour (FSSB) for different groups of workers and explored one potential mechanism of FSSB, namely, schedule fit. Results show that FSSB increases employees' perceptions of schedule fit, which, in turn, minimises their work–life conflict (WLC). We also found that BC workers seem to benefit more from FSSB than WC workers. We inform work–life research on less supportive contexts and offer practical recommendations for HR managers to operate successfully within these environments.

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How do people make sense of wealth and poverty?

Davidai

2022

Current Opinion in Psychology

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Economic cycles as a source of social influence on individuals

Cited by 6 publications

References 39 publications

The Conflicting Impact of COVID-19’s Health and Economic Crises on Helping

The Conflicting Impact of COVID-19’s Health and Economic Crises on Helping

Managing work and nonwork responsibilities when labour protection is weak: The role of family supportive supervisor behaviours

How do people make sense of wealth and poverty?

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