Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2014
Publication Title
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Volume
123
Abstract
Status is a valued workplace resource that facilitates career success, yet little is known regarding whether and how cultural orientation affects status attainment. We integrate status characteristics theory with the literature on individualism and collectivism and propose a cultural patterning in the determinants of status. Four studies (N = 379) demonstrate that cultural orientation influences the tendency to view high status individuals as competent versus warm (Study 1), uncover cultural differences in both individuals’ tendency to engage in competence and warmth behaviors to attain workplace status (Study 2) and evaluators’ tendency to ascribe status to individuals who demonstrate competence versus warmth (Study 3), and verify that cultural differences in the effects of competence and warmth on status perceptions, and in turn performance evaluations, generalize to real world interdependent groups (Study 4). Our findings advance theory on the cultural contingencies of status attainment and have implications for managing diversity at work.
Issue
1
First Page
34
Last Page
48
DOI
10.1016/j.obhdp.2013.11.001
ISSN
0749-5978
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Carlos J. Torelli, Lisa M. Leslie, Jennifer L. Stoner, et al.. "Cultural determinants of status: Implications for workplace evaluations and behaviors" (2014). Marketing Faculty Publications. 1.
https://commons.und.edu/mark-fac/1