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Cultural and generational predictors of learning goal orientation: a multilevel analysis of managers across 20 countries

Cultural and generational predictors of learning goal orientation: a multilevel analysis of managers across 20 countries
Cultural and generational predictors of learning goal orientation: a multilevel analysis of managers across 20 countries
Drawing on learning and generational theory, we investigate the effect of socio-economic and contextual conditions on managerial learning and organizational development. Using data from 3657 managers across 20 countries, we untangle the interactive effect of national culture and generational cohort on learning goal orientation (LGO). Managers from younger generations (e.g. generation X) had a stronger LGO than those in older generations (e.g. Baby Boomers, those born between 1946 and 1959). Performance orientation (PO) moderated the relationships so that the gap was stronger in high PO cultures. A validation of a model using hierarchical linear modelling (HLM) supports a cross-level moderation model of PO on LGO. Our study provides important first evidence of the value of the multilevel analysis to understanding LGO in different groups of managers, improving scholarly capacity to understand the multilevel and cross-level effects that govern the workplace. It also supports cross-level studies for the development of global managers from different generational groups. We extend LGO research by identifying the contextual influence and how this impacts on the behaviour of managers across different societal ‘structures’ (e.g. generations) and societies (e.g. cultures). The results provide practical suggestions that make a difference in the workplace.
Cross-cultural management, generations, learning goal orientation, national cultures
1470-5958
159-179
D'Amato, Alessia
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Baruch, Yehuda
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D'Amato, Alessia
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Baruch, Yehuda
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D'Amato, Alessia and Baruch, Yehuda (2020) Cultural and generational predictors of learning goal orientation: a multilevel analysis of managers across 20 countries. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 20 (2), 159-179. (doi:10.1177/1470595820926218).

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Drawing on learning and generational theory, we investigate the effect of socio-economic and contextual conditions on managerial learning and organizational development. Using data from 3657 managers across 20 countries, we untangle the interactive effect of national culture and generational cohort on learning goal orientation (LGO). Managers from younger generations (e.g. generation X) had a stronger LGO than those in older generations (e.g. Baby Boomers, those born between 1946 and 1959). Performance orientation (PO) moderated the relationships so that the gap was stronger in high PO cultures. A validation of a model using hierarchical linear modelling (HLM) supports a cross-level moderation model of PO on LGO. Our study provides important first evidence of the value of the multilevel analysis to understanding LGO in different groups of managers, improving scholarly capacity to understand the multilevel and cross-level effects that govern the workplace. It also supports cross-level studies for the development of global managers from different generational groups. We extend LGO research by identifying the contextual influence and how this impacts on the behaviour of managers across different societal ‘structures’ (e.g. generations) and societies (e.g. cultures). The results provide practical suggestions that make a difference in the workplace.

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Accepted/In Press date: 20 April 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 15 June 2020
Published date: 1 August 2020
Keywords: Cross-cultural management, generations, learning goal orientation, national cultures

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Local EPrints ID: 443981
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/443981
ISSN: 1470-5958
PURE UUID: 8f5abe67-2797-484f-817d-28f899dddeab
ORCID for Yehuda Baruch: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0678-6273

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Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 03:32

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Author: Alessia D'Amato
Author: Yehuda Baruch ORCID iD

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