When your strength threatens me: Supervisors show less social comparison   bias than subordinates

doi:10.1111/joop.12142

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	When your strength threatens me: Supervisors show less social comparison bias than subordinates
	Jia, Huiyuan ; Lu, Jingyi ; Xie, Xiaofei ; Huang, Tao
刊名	JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
	2016
关键词	SELF POWER PERSPECTIVE INFORMATION PERCEPTIONS PERFORMANCE COMPETITION SIMILARITY PEERS
DOI	10.1111/joop.12142
英文摘要	Employee referral programmes encourage employees to recommend outstanding candidates to their organizations. However, a superior candidate can be a threat to a referee. People tend to not recommend higher performing candidates who have the same strengths as themselves because these candidates can be a threat to their self-positivity. This is known as social comparison bias (Garcia et al., 2010, Organ. Behav. Hum. Decis. Process., 113, 97) and has a tendency to hinder the effectiveness of employee referral programmes. We propose that supervisors will show less social comparison bias than their subordinates. Data taken from the results of three experiments and a field study show that supervisors (vs. subordinates) exhibit less social comparison bias (Studies 1a, 1b, and 2), and we learn that self-threat account for the difference between supervisors and subordinates (Study 2). Moreover, we verify that the difference between supervisors and subordinates in terms of their willingness to provide a recommendation reflects social comparison bias rather than a complementarity concern (Study 3).; National Natural Science Foundation of China [71172024, 91224002, 71472005]; SSCI; ARTICLE; xiaofei@pku.edu.cn; 3; 568-587; 89
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/459365]
专题	心理与认知科学学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jia, Huiyuan,Lu, Jingyi,Xie, Xiaofei,et al. When your strength threatens me: Supervisors show less social comparison bias than subordinates[J]. JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY,2016.
APA	Jia, Huiyuan,Lu, Jingyi,Xie, Xiaofei,&Huang, Tao.(2016).When your strength threatens me: Supervisors show less social comparison bias than subordinates.JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY.
MLA	Jia, Huiyuan,et al."When your strength threatens me: Supervisors show less social comparison bias than subordinates".JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY (2016).