More Class in Management Research (eBook)

The Relationship between Socioeconomic Background and Managerial Attitudes

Yanick Kemayou (Autor)

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2016 | 1st ed. 2016
XIV, 214 Seiten
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH (Verlag)
978-3-658-12063-4 (ISBN)

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Yanick Kemayou investigates how the socioeconomic background of organizational leaders can explain their management-relevant attitudes. The study provides theory development and first empirical tests of the impact of leaders' socioeconomic background on their risk propensity, sense of control and justice perceptions. The model integrates sociological and social psychological research on class dynamics and attitudes. Yanick Kemayou uses cross-sectional data from the German Socioeconomic Panel to test the model. The empirical analyses provide robust support for the theoretical ideas. Results show, for instance, that reproduced leaders with a lower social distance toward broader classes exhibit more favorable justice perceptions toward groups such as unskilled workers than distant reproduced leaders. The bottom line for organizations is that leaders are likely to assess situations and persons differently because of their own socioeconomic background.

Dr. Yanick Kemayou researches and lectures at the Department of Management of the University of Paderborn. He is also a visiting lecturer at the Chair for International Personnel Economics of the University of Vienna and was visiting scholar at the Department of Strategy and Business Policy of HEC Paris.

Inhalt

Preface 5
Abstract 7
Contents 8
Figures 10
Tables 11
1 Introduction 13
1.1 Major challenges of contemporary management research 14
1.2 Improving management research by introducing socioeconomic background 17
1.3 Socioeconomic background in management research: What has been done so far? 21
2 Literature Review 29
2.1 Managerial attitudes and the recent crisis 29
2.2 Dependent variables – Effects 32
2.2.1 Risk propensity 32
2.2.2 Sense of control 34
2.2.3 Justice perceptions 38
2.3 Dependent variables – Determinants 41
2.3.1 Risk propensity 41
2.3.2 Sense of control 45
2.3.3 Justice perceptions 49
3 Theoretical Model & Hypotheses
3.1 Research model 51
3.2 Hypotheses 66
3.3 Control variables 83
4 Operationalization & Methods
4.1 The GSOEP and its use in management research 87
4.2 Operationalizing ‘socioeconomic background’ 89
4.3 Operationalizing the dependent variables 92
4.3.1 Risk propensity 92
4.3.2 Sense of control 95
4.3.3 Justice perceptions 98
4.4 Operationalizing the 4-group classification of organizational leaders 101
4.5 Control variables 106
4.6 Methods 107
5 Empirical Results 111
5.1 Descriptive statistics 111
5.2 Testing the research hypotheses 125
5.3 Sensitivity checks 149
5.4 Summarizing assessment of the empirical findings 161
6 Concluding Discussion 166
6.1 Integrating the findings within extant knowledge 166
6.2 Future research 172
6.3 Managerial implications 179
6.4 Final remark 182
References 184
Appendix 212

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.1.2016
• Zusatzinfo: XIV, 214 p. 14 illus.
• Verlagsort: Wiesbaden
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Personalwesen
• Schlagworte: Justice perceptions • Organizational leaders • Risk propensity • Sense of control • Social Class
• ISBN-10: 3-658-12063-0 / 3658120630
• ISBN-13: 978-3-658-12063-4 / 9783658120634