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Title: | Flexibility I-deals and Prosocial Motives: A Trickle-Down Perspective |
Authors: | Taser, D Rofcanin, Y Las Heras, M Bosch, MJ |
Keywords: | prosocial motives;flexibility i-deals;work performance;deviant behaviours;multi-level data |
Issue Date: | 26-Aug-2021 |
Publisher: | Informa UK Limited |
Citation: | Taser, D., Rofcanin, Y., Las Heras, M. and Bosch, M.J. (2021) 'Flexibility I-deals and prosocial motives: a trickle-down perspective, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 0 (in press), pp. 1-26. doi: 10.1080/09585192.2021.1953564. |
Abstract: | © 2021 The Author(s). Growing concerns of maintaining the best talent have contributed to the rising number of idiosyncratic deals (i-deals) at the workplace. I-deals refer to the personalised work arrangements between employees and their employers where the terms benefit both parties. Despite the acknowledgment that supervisors are key in creating i-deals, research to date has overlooked their role. Drawing on prosocial motives and social learning theory, we explore an overall model of what triggers employee flexibility i-deals and the consequences of such i-deals on employee outcomes. In so doing, we explore one of the key yet untested assumptions of i-deals theory: that they are intended to be mutually beneficial. We investigate our model with matched supervisor – employee data (n = 186) collected in El Salvador and Chile. Findings reveal that there is a positive association between supervisors’ prosocial motives and employees’ flexibility i-deals. Moreover, prosocial motives of supervisors trickle-down and shape employees’ functioning at work (i.e. work performance and deviant behaviours) and lead them to be more prosocially motivated through employees’ flexibility i-deals. |
URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/23396 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2021.1953564 |
ISSN: | 0958-5192 |
Appears in Collections: | Brunel Business School Research Papers |
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