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How Employee-AI Collaboration Influences Coworkers' Helping Behaviour: An Attribution Theory Perspective.

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Increased employee use of artificial intelligence (AI) can decrease coworker helping behavior. Observers may attribute AI collaboration to laziness or responsibility avoidance, especially with high human-AI task interdependence.

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attribution theorycoworker helping behaviouremployee–AI collaborationhuman–AI task interdependencelaziness attributionresponsibility-avoidance attribution

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Area of Science:

  • Organizational Behavior
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Artificial Intelligence Ethics

Background:

  • Employee-AI collaboration is shifting from a personal tool to a social signal in the workplace.
  • Existing research primarily focuses on AI's impact on individual performance and well-being, neglecting observer perspectives on helping behavior.
  • Attribution theory provides a framework to understand how observers interpret others' actions, including AI use.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the negative spillover effects of employee-AI collaboration on coworker helping behavior from an observer's viewpoint.
  • To develop and test a theoretical model linking employee-AI collaboration, coworker attributions (laziness, responsibility avoidance), and helping behavior.
  • To examine the moderating role of human-AI task interdependence on these relationships.

Main Methods:

  • Study 1: A two-wave survey of 375 coworker dyads, analyzed using hierarchical regression and bootstrapping.
  • Study 2: A 2x2 scenario experiment manipulating employee-AI collaboration and human-AI task interdependence.
  • Both studies measured perceived employee-AI collaboration, coworker attributions, and willingness to help.

Main Results:

  • Higher perceived employee-AI collaboration negatively correlates with coworker helping behavior.
  • Laziness and responsibility-avoidance attributions mediate the relationship between employee-AI collaboration and reduced helping.
  • Increased human-AI task interdependence amplifies negative attributions and their impact on helping behavior.

Conclusions:

  • Employee-AI collaboration can inadvertently reduce prosocial behavior among coworkers.
  • Attributing AI use to laziness or responsibility avoidance is a key mechanism driving this reduction.
  • Workplace interventions should consider how task interdependence influences perceptions of AI collaboration to mitigate negative social spillovers.