Clarifying perceived task help receipt in the workplace: Construct definition and scale development.
Although task‐focused help behavior is commonplace in modern workplaces, organizational researchers lack a valid behaviorally specific, recipient‐centered measure of this type of assistance. Perceived task help receipt refers to an employee's perception that another person has enacted a discrete, ta...
| Publicado en: | Applied Psychology: An International Review Vol. 75; no. 2; pp. 1 - 45 |
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| Formato: | questions and answers research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Apr2026
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