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Sunday, March 18, 2018
Why We Don’t Let Coworkers Help Us, Even When We Need It
When colleagues display
helpful
and
cooperative
“citizenship behaviors,” research has shown, they tend to develop
high-quality social connections
, which can improve individual and team performance through enhanced
coordination
, communication, and
shared understanding within organizations
. But there’s an obstacle to reaping those benefits — social psychologists have also found that people often react negatively to being
helped
. So we recently conducted a series of studies (forthcoming in the Journal of Applied Psychology) to gain insight into how that dynamic plays out at work.
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