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If You Do What You Love, Will The Money Follow? How Work Orientation Impacts Objective Career Outcomes via Managerial (Mis)perceptions
Academy of Management Journal ( IF 10.5 ) Pub Date : 2021-04-20 , DOI: 10.5465/amj.2020.0841
Yuna Cho 1 , Winnie Yun Jiang 2
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Existing research has implied conflicting views on whether individuals with a calling orientation toward work (seeing work as personally fulfilling and contributing to a better world) enjoy more favorable objective career outcomes, such as higher income and chance of promotion, compared to those with a job orientation (seeing work as a means to a financial end). We suggest that the impasse is in part due to prior research’s exclusive focus on how work orientation affects one’s effort and subsequent job performance. Drawing on theories of signaling, cognitive biases, and reciprocity, we propose that calling-oriented employees enjoy better objective career outcomes than job-oriented employees via an external pathway: managers misperceive the employees’ calling orientation as evidence of better performance and a stronger commitment to the organization. In Study 1 — analyses of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study — we find support for the main effect, and in Study 2 — an online experiment — we constructively replicate this effect and find evidence for our predicted explanatory mechanisms. Furthermore, we find that observing a calling-oriented employee prompts managers to perceive them more favorably in several other domains, creating a halo effect. Our research sheds new light on how individuals’ subjective view of the meaning of work influences their objective career success, highlighting workplace signals and managerial perceptions as important mechanisms.

中文翻译:

如果你做你喜欢做的事,钱会随之而来吗?工作导向如何通过管理(错误)认知影响客观的职业成果

现有的研究表明,与有工作的人相比,对工作有呼唤倾向的人(将工作视为个人的成就感和对更美好世界的贡献)是否享有更有利的客观职业成果,例如更高的收入和晋升机会,存在着相互矛盾的观点定向(将工作视为实现财务目标的手段)。我们认为,僵局的部分原因是先前的研究专注于工作导向如何影响一个人的努力和随后的工作绩效。借鉴信号、认知偏差和互惠理论,我们提出,通过外部途径,以呼叫为导向的员工比以工作为导向的员工享有更好的客观职业成果:管理人员将员工的呼召取向误解为更好的绩效和对组织更坚定的承诺的证据。在研究 1——对威斯康星纵向研究的分析——我们找到了主效应的支持,在研究 2——一个在线实验中——我们建设性地复制了这种效应,并为我们预测的解释机制找到了证据。此外,我们发现观察一个以呼叫为导向的员工会促使经理在其他几个领域对他们更有利,从而产生光环效应。我们的研究揭示了个人对工作意义的主观看法如何影响他们的客观职业成功,强调工作场所信号和管理观念是重要的机制。在研究 2(一项在线实验)中,我们建设性地复制了这种效应,并为我们预测的解释机制找到了证据。此外,我们发现观察一个以呼叫为导向的员工会促使经理在其他几个领域对他们更有利,从而产生光环效应。我们的研究揭示了个人对工作意义的主观看法如何影响他们的客观职业成功,强调工作场所信号和管理观念是重要的机制。在研究 2(一项在线实验)中,我们建设性地复制了这种效应,并为我们预测的解释机制找到了证据。此外,我们发现观察一个以呼叫为导向的员工会促使经理在其他几个领域对他们更有利,从而产生光环效应。我们的研究揭示了个人对工作意义的主观看法如何影响他们的客观职业成功,强调工作场所信号和管理观念是重要的机制。
更新日期:2021-04-20
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