Earl Graves School of Business, Morgan State University, 1700 East Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, MD 21040, USA.
J Appl Psychol. 2010 Jan;95(1):159-73. doi: 10.1037/a0018019.
Research on participation in development activities (PDA) has traditionally been examined from an advantage perspective: Employees engage in development activities out of a desire to enhance current and future advantages. In this study, the author examined PDA from a disadvantage perspective, which suggests that employees participate in development activities out of a desire to redress perceived disadvantages. Perceived individual relative deprivation was hypothesized to relate to PDA through intention to participate and counterfactual beliefs, and perceived behavioral control was proposed to interact with intention to participate in relating to development behaviors. In a sample of 144 employees from 27 companies in Ghana, an emerging economy, moderated structural equation modeling results confirm some of the hypotheses. Implications for PDA research and human resource management are discussed.
参与发展活动（PDA）的研究传统上是从优势视角进行考察的：员工出于增强当前和未来优势的愿望参与发展活动。在这项研究中，作者从劣势视角考察了 PDA，即员工出于弥补感知到的劣势的愿望而参与发展活动。假设感知到的个体相对剥夺感通过参与意图和替代性信念与 PDA 相关，感知到的行为控制被提出与参与意图相互作用，从而与发展行为相关。在加纳 27 家公司的 144 名员工样本中，通过调节结构方程建模结果证实了一些假设。讨论了对 PDA 研究和人力资源管理的启示。
