Power distance orientation and employee help seeking: Trust in supervisor as a mediator

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Yang Ji
Erhua Zhou
Caiyun Li
Yanling Yan
Cite this article:  Ji, Y., Zhou, E., Li, C., & Yan, Y. (2015). Power distance orientation and employee help seeking: Trust in supervisor as a mediator. Social Behavior and Personality: An international journal, 43(6), 1043-1054.


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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.

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