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- Title
HOW WORK ORIENTATION IMPACTS OBJECTIVE CAREER OUTCOMES VIA MANAGERIAL (MIS)PERCEPTIONS.
- Authors
YUNA CHO; JIANG, WINNIE Y.
- Abstract
Views differ on whether individuals with a calling orientation toward work (i.e., 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, versus those with a job orientation (i.e., seeing work as a means to a financial end). We suggest that the impasse is partially 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 employees' calling orientation as evidence of better performance and stronger organizational commitment. 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, observing a calling-oriented employee prompts managers to perceive them more favorably in other domains, creating a halo effect. Our research sheds 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.
- Subjects
WORK orientations; JOB performance; JOB satisfaction; MOTIVATION (Psychology); HALO effect (Psychology)
- Publication
Academy of Management Journal, 2022, Vol 65, Issue 4, p1353
- ISSN
0001-4273
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5465/amj.2020.0841