Learning Goal Orientation and cultural diversity: Unveiling the impact across generational cohorts
Learning Goal Orientation and cultural diversity: Unveiling the impact across generational cohorts
Importance and Key Contribution. Though research on learning goal orientation (LGO) abounds in developmental and education literature, research on its content and meaning in the workplace is comparatively limited. The purpose of this study was to address these neglected areas by analyzing the influence of generational groups and national culture (e.g., performance orientation) on LGO in the managerial population. We found support that the youngest generation of managers in our sample had the highest LGO. Moreover, with a multilevel framework national culture is a cross-level moderator; there is a tendency for managers in younger generations in performance oriented countries to be higher in LGO than managers in younger generations in low performance oriented countries. This is one of the first studies to provide evidence of LGO in the workplace and in a managerial population across countries.
cross-cultural management, , generations. , national cultures, learning goal orientation,
D'amato, Alessia
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Emery, Cécile
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31 August 2016
D'amato, Alessia
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Emery, Cécile
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D'amato, Alessia and Emery, Cécile
(2016)
Learning Goal Orientation and cultural diversity: Unveiling the impact across generational cohorts.
Irish Academy of Management Conference 2016, Dublin University, Dublin, Ireland.
31 Aug - 02 Sep 2016.
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Importance and Key Contribution. Though research on learning goal orientation (LGO) abounds in developmental and education literature, research on its content and meaning in the workplace is comparatively limited. The purpose of this study was to address these neglected areas by analyzing the influence of generational groups and national culture (e.g., performance orientation) on LGO in the managerial population. We found support that the youngest generation of managers in our sample had the highest LGO. Moreover, with a multilevel framework national culture is a cross-level moderator; there is a tendency for managers in younger generations in performance oriented countries to be higher in LGO than managers in younger generations in low performance oriented countries. This is one of the first studies to provide evidence of LGO in the workplace and in a managerial population across countries.
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Accepted/In Press date: 27 August 2016
Published date: 31 August 2016
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Irish Academy of Management Conference 2016, Dublin University, Dublin, Ireland, 2016-08-31 - 2016-09-02
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cross-cultural management, , generations. , national cultures, learning goal orientation,
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Alessia D'amato
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Cécile Emery
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