Power Distance Orientation and Employee Help Seeking: Trust in Supervisor as a Mediator
We explored the mechanism and effect of supervisors' power distance orientation in relation to employee help seeking by way of a hierarchical linear model based on a sample of 311 employees working in 12 Chinese firms. Results indicated that power distance orientation had a significantly
negative impact on employees' instrumental and emotional help seeking as well as their trust in the supervisor. Affect-based trust mediated the relationship between power distance orientation and instrumental and emotional help seeking. Further, cognition-based trust mediated the relationship
between power distance orientation and instrumental help seeking. Implications for theory and management are discussed.
Keywords: AFFECT-BASED TRUST; COGNITION-BASED TRUST; EMOTIONAL HELP SEEKING; INSTRUMENTAL HELP SEEKING; POWER DISTANCE ORIENTATION
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 July 2015
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