Supervisor-Provided Resources: Development and Validation of a Measure of Employee Resources

This research integrates social exchange theory and resource theory to develop a measure of the types of resources supervisors provide to their employees, referred to as supervisor-provided resources (SPR). The factor structure, construct validity, and criterion-related validity for the SPR are reported based on six separate samples of working adults. Results indicated three resource dimensions: money, social, and task resources. All three resource types were positively related to quality of the social exchange relationship, but they were differentially related to attitudinal and behavioral outcomes. Implications of the SPR for future research and practice in the context of exchange relationships are discussed.