野心是把双刃剑:事业成功与不道德行为

IF 3.5 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL
Charles A. O'Reilly, Jeffrey Pfeffer
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摘要

野心是一种个人特质,我们通过实证研究发现,它与人格的 "五大维度 "截然不同。野心是事业成功和不道德行为的重要决定因素,但对它的理论和研究一直不足。我们认为,野心的具体目标或重点以及一般野心的水平都很重要。研究 1 采用了大量在职成年人样本,发现一般野心和外在关注的野心与参与政治行为的意愿和事业成功相关。研究 2 调查了第二个工作成年人样本,发现外在野心与求职时虚报资历的倾向增加有关。在研究 3 中,我们使用了四种不同的情景,发现外在野心与人们从事不道德行为的意愿有关。这些数据表明,野心是一种重要的特质,有助于了解人们的职业生涯,而且野心至少有两种形式。此外,与自恋等其他一些个人特质一样,野心也可能是一把双刃剑,既与事业成就有关,也与愿意走道德捷径以获得成功有关。
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Ambition as a doubled-edged sword: Career success and unethical behavior
Ambition, an individual trait that we show to be empirically distinct from the Big Five dimensions of personality, has been under theorized and researched as an important determinant of both career success and unethical behavior. We argue that the specific goals or focus of ambition, as well as the level of general ambition, are important. Study 1 used a large sample of working adults and found that general ambition and extrinsically-focused ambition were associated with a willingness to engage in political behavior and career success. Study 2 surveyed a second sample of working adults and found that extrinsic ambition was associated with an increased tendency to misrepresent qualifications when applying for a job. In Study 3, using four distinct scenarios, we found that extrinsic ambition was associated with people's willingness to engage in unethical behavior. The data make the case that ambition is an important trait useful for understanding people's careers and that there are at least two forms of ambition. Moreover, like some other personal traits such as narcissism, ambition can be a double-edged sword, associated both with career achievement and being willing to take ethical shortcuts to achieve success.
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CiteScore
8.50
自引率
4.70%
发文量
577
审稿时长
41 days
期刊介绍: Personality and Individual Differences is devoted to the publication of articles (experimental, theoretical, review) which aim to integrate as far as possible the major factors of personality with empirical paradigms from experimental, physiological, animal, clinical, educational, criminological or industrial psychology or to seek an explanation for the causes and major determinants of individual differences in concepts derived from these disciplines. The editors are concerned with both genetic and environmental causes, and they are particularly interested in possible interaction effects.
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