Vicarious learning under implicit contracts Jongwoon (Willie) Choi, Gary Hecht, Ivo D. Tafkov & Kristy L. Towry
Tipo de material: ArtículoDescripción: Páginas 1087 a la 1108Tema(s):- Contabilidad -- Publicaciones seriadas
- Administración del personal -- Publicaciones seriadas
- Capacitación de empleados -- Publicaciones seriadas
- Capacitación de personal directivo -- Publicaciones seriadas
- Selección de personal -- Publicaciones seriadas
- Evaluación de empleados -- Publicaciones seriadas
- Psicología industrial -- Publicaciones seriadas
- Sobresueldos por rendimiento -- Publicaciones seriadas
- Supervisión de personal -- Publicaciones seriadas
Tipo de ítem | Biblioteca actual | Colección | Signatura topográfica | Info Vol | Copia número | Estado | Fecha de vencimiento | Código de barras | |
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Revistas | Central Bogotá Sala Hemeroteca | Colección Hemeroteca | 657 (Navegar estantería(Abre debajo)) | 2016 V.91 No.4 (Jul) | 1 | Disponible | 0000002030403 |
Employee contracts often allow for managerial discretion, such that the manager decides after observing an employee's performance how that employee will be rewarded or penalized. Importantly, the effects of such evaluation outcomes can extend beyond the employee(s) directly affected, because such outcomes can be observed by other employees within the firm. The net effect of such vicarious learning as an indirect control depends on the inferences employees make after observing a peer's evaluation outcome. In this study, we use an experiment to investigate whether the inferences observer-employees make about how managers evaluate and reward employee behavior depend on whether the valence of the observed outcome is positive or negative. Using the setting of a strategic performance measurement system, we test and find support for a causal model, in which the valence of the observed outcome influences observer-employees' inferences and subsequent behavioral focus via their psychological distance from, and their construal of, the observed outcome. Our results suggest that how observer-employees respond after observing a peer employee's evaluation outcome is asymmetric. Specifically, when contemplating their own behavior, employees who observe positive outcomes focus on the performance measures within the strategic performance measurement system, whereas those who observe negative outcomes focus on the underlying strategic construct.