Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/278845 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16147
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We offer a comprehensive analysis of the organizational and behavioral foundations of employees' helping and antisocial behavior as an integral part of a firm's workplace culture and working climate. Using representative employer-employee panel data of larger German private-sector firms, we document a large variation in helping and antisocial behavior across firms. Our regression results show that differences in supervisors' people skills, as well as workforce trust, social preferences, and personality traits explain these firm-level differences in helping and antisocial behavior in the workplace. Our measures are derived from established survey constructs and include preference items that have been behaviorally validated in experimental games by prior research. Together, the results corroborate the importance of both leadership quality and workforce composition for the manifestation of helpful and hostile workplace cultures.
Subjects: 
helping
antisocial behavior
leadership
social preferences
trust
personality
human resource management practices
JEL: 
D01
M14
M21
M50
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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