The effects of coworkers’ development idiosyncratic deals on employees’ cooperation intention

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Xiaoyan Zhang
Wenbing Wu
Yihua Zhang
Hui Deng
Yuanyuan Lan
Daiheng Li
Cite this article:  Zhang, X., Wu, W., Zhang, Y., Deng, H., Lan, Y., & Li, D. (2021). The effects of coworkers’ development idiosyncratic deals on employees’ cooperation intention. Social Behavior and Personality: An international journal, 49(11), e10783.


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Idiosyncratic deals (i-deals) are individualized agreements of a nonstandard nature negotiated between employers and employees regarding employment terms, which are regarded as being beneficial for the organization. On the bases of social comparison theory and equity theory, we hypothesized that witnessing the development i-deals of their coworkers would trigger employees’ feeling of unfairness, causing lower cooperation intention. We further hypothesized that perceived future i-deals and task interdependence would play moderating roles in this reduction. Participants were 284 employees in China. The results show that feelings of unfairness mediated the relationship between witnessing development i-deals and the witnesses’ cooperation intention. The positive relationship between witnessing development i-deals and feelings of unfairness was weaker when employees perceived a stronger possibility of themselves obtaining a future i-deal, and a high level of task interdependence weakened the negative effect of feelings of unfairness on employees’ cooperation intention.

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