The relationship between career decision status and important work outcomes

Abstract. Finding meaning and purpose in one's life facilitates several important work outcomes. A global pandemic that changes both the lives of employees and the way they work likely affects the relationships between workers' meaning in life and work. Making meaning salient to employees, despite the circumstances, may strengthen and preserve these relationships. To examine this, 71 employed adults completed a photo-taking task that either focused on objects of meaning ( n = 36) or objects that were blue (i.e., the control; n = 35). The results suggested that meaning salience increased job satisfaction. In addition, it moderated the relationship between purpose (but not meaning) and job satisfaction. In all, this highlights the challenges of new working circumstances and the importance of continuously making meaning salient to employees.

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Family Firms and the Effects of Organizational Culture on Their Innovation

10.4018/978-1-6684-3550-2.ch049 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 1082-1102

Author(s):

Elif Baykal

Keyword(s):

Organizational Culture ◽

Financial Performance ◽

Organizational Climate ◽

Family Firms ◽

Work And Family ◽

Work Outcomes ◽

Organizational Cultures ◽

Important Work ◽

The Relationship

Owing to the fact that sustainability and the financial performance of businesses are important work outcomes in family firms, in this chapter for both reaching work and family related goals and ensuring sustainibility, it is proposed that family firms as in the case with their non-family counterparts will prefer to exploit innovativeness in attaining their financial goals. The main objective of this chapter is understanding innovative inclinations and preferences of family firms and examining the relationship between innovativeness and organizational cultures of these companies. And it is suggested that organizational culture will act as a catalyzer in this relationship. In the chapter, innovativeness in family firms has been examined in detail. Main types of organizational cultures regarding innovation in family firms have been explained in detail, and an approach that suggests that organizational climate is closely related with the innovativeness of family firms has been adopted.

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Family Firms and the Effects of Organizational Culture on Their Innovation

Strategy and Superior Performance of Micro and Small Businesses in Volatile Economies - Advances in Logistics, Operations, and Management Science ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-7888-8.ch013 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 207-226 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Elif Baykal

Keyword(s):

Organizational Culture ◽

Financial Performance ◽

Organizational Climate ◽

Family Firms ◽

Work And Family ◽

Work Outcomes ◽

Organizational Cultures ◽

Important Work ◽

The Relationship

Owing to the fact that sustainability and the financial performance of businesses are important work outcomes in family firms, in this chapter for both reaching work and family related goals and ensuring sustainibility, it is proposed that family firms as in the case with their non-family counterparts will prefer to exploit innovativeness in attaining their financial goals. The main objective of this chapter is understanding innovative inclinations and preferences of family firms and examining the relationship between innovativeness and organizational cultures of these companies. And it is suggested that organizational culture will act as a catalyzer in this relationship. In the chapter, innovativeness in family firms has been examined in detail. Main types of organizational cultures regarding innovation in family firms have been explained in detail, and an approach that suggests that organizational climate is closely related with the innovativeness of family firms has been adopted.

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