Dear Colleagues,
We are writing to inform you all about our helping behavior caucus at AoM - The details are below, and we hope to see you there!
Employee helping: Growing a community of researchers and developing a future research agenda
ID: 10336
Monday, 3 Aug 2026, 09:45 - 11:15
Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown: Second Floor: Parlor D
201 N 17th St, Philadelphia
An Overview
This caucus will provide a forum for researchers to discuss emerging topics in the area of employee helping. This will include discourse surrounding novel research themes, construct clarity and operationalization, and theoretical frameworks. It will also provide a setting for researchers create connections for potential collaboration in future research projects.
As the organizational citizenship behavior literature has grown (Podsakoff et al., 2018), the literature examining employee helping behavior has also flourished in tandem (Ehrhart, 2018). This caucus has three main areas of discussion that we see as valuable and worthy in promoting the conversation about helping in organizations: (1) The relationship between helping and overlapping constructs, including OCB, (2) When and why is helping more beneficial or detrimental for helpers, help recipients, and organizations? And (3) promising avenues for future research.
The Schedule
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Section
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Length
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Introduction and sharing current projects
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10 minutes
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Topic 1: Current research trends regarding harmful help
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15 minutes
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Discussion/Socialization Break
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10 minutes
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Topic 2: Future research directions
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20 minutes
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Discussion/Socialization Break
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10 minutes
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Topic 3: Helping behavior: Further growing the micro community
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20 minutes
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Conclusion
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5 minutes
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Total:
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90 minutes
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If you know of anyone else who might be interested in joining us for this caucus, please pass along this information. The more scholars, the better the discussion and insights!
Please email us if you have any questions (Andrea Hetrick at ahetrick@unm.edu or Dana Harari at hararid@technion.ac.il)
Sincerely,
Andrea & Dana
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Andrea Hetrick
The University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM
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