Helping others makes me fit better: effects of helping behavior by newcomers and coworker-attributed motives on newcomers’ adjustment

Drawing on social exchange theory and attribution theory, this study explores whether newcomers’ helping behavior benefits their adjustment and whether the helping behavior attributed by coworkers to certain motives (prosocial motivation and impression management motivation) moderates these benefits. On the basis of results obtained from time-lagged surveys conducted with 114 newcomers, the study suggests that newcomers’ helping behavior...