When is helping behavior unhelpful? A conceptual analysis and research agenda

Popular parlance, several organizational literatures (e.g., feedback, mentoring, and organizational citizenship behavior), and research literatures in other academic disciplines (e.g., social psychology, judgment and decision-making) have recognized that help can sometimes be unhelpful. The current paper organizes and extends the extant research in this area using a momentary, relational, person-person complementary fit (i.e., need-fulfillment)...