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Article: If You Do What You Love, Will The Money Follow? How Work Orientation Impacts Objective Career Outcomes via Managerial (Mis)perceptions
Title | If You Do What You Love, Will The Money Follow? How Work Orientation Impacts Objective Career Outcomes via Managerial (Mis)perceptions |
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Keywords | Research Methods Research Design Longitudinal Research Methods Quantitative Orientation |
Issue Date | 2021 |
Publisher | Academy of Management. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.aom.pace.edu/amjnew |
Citation | Academy of Management Journal, 2021, Epub 2021-04-20 How to Cite? |
Abstract | 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. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/300652 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 9.5 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 8.271 |
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dc.contributor.author | Cho, Y | - |
dc.contributor.author | Jiang, WY | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-06-18T14:55:04Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-06-18T14:55:04Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Academy of Management Journal, 2021, Epub 2021-04-20 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0001-4273 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/300652 | - |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Academy of Management. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.aom.pace.edu/amjnew | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Academy of Management Journal | - |
dc.subject | Research Methods | - |
dc.subject | Research Design | - |
dc.subject | Longitudinal | - |
dc.subject | Research Methods | - |
dc.subject | Quantitative Orientation | - |
dc.title | If You Do What You Love, Will The Money Follow? How Work Orientation Impacts Objective Career Outcomes via Managerial (Mis)perceptions | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Cho, Y: yunacho@HKUCC-COM.hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Cho, Y=rp02831 | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.5465/amj.2020.0841 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 322768 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | Epub 2021-04-20 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000843472800011 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |