System justification in organizational contexts: How a Motivated preference for the status quo can affect organizational attitudes and behaviors

IF 3.1 Q2 MANAGEMENT Research in Organizational Behavior Pub Date : 2014-01-01 DOI:10.1016/j.riob.2014.03.001
Devon Proudfoot, Aaron C. Kay
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In this chapter, we put forth the premise that people's motivated tendency to justify and defend their external systems has important, and largely unexplored, implications for the field of organizational behavior. Drawing on recent theoretical and empirical work emerging from System Justification Theory (Jost & Banaji, 1994), we propose that people's desire to view prevailing structural arrangements in a positive light may uniquely contribute to our understanding of the psychology of people in organizational settings. We begin by specifically highlighting System Justification Theory's implications for: organizational change, employee citizenship behaviors, and integration of a diverse workforce. We then review empirical work on the situations in which people's system-justification motive is likely to be particularly pronounced and discuss how these situations may manifest in organizational contexts. Following this, we describe several streams of research on the consequences of the system-justification motive, with a focus on the implications of these findings for organizational members’ perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors in the workplace.

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组织背景下的系统辩护:对现状的动机偏好如何影响组织的态度和行为
在本章中,我们提出了一个前提,即人们为外部系统辩护和辩护的动机倾向对组织行为学领域具有重要的、很大程度上未被探索的影响。借鉴最近从制度正当化理论(Jost &Banaji, 1994),我们提出,人们希望从积极的角度看待现行的结构安排,这可能对我们理解组织环境中人们的心理有独特的贡献。我们首先特别强调系统辩护理论的含义:组织变革、员工公民行为和多元化劳动力的整合。然后,我们回顾了关于人们的系统辩护动机可能特别明显的情况的实证工作,并讨论了这些情况如何在组织环境中表现出来。在此之后,我们描述了关于系统辩护动机的结果的几个研究流,重点关注这些发现对组织成员在工作场所的感知、态度和行为的影响。
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Research in Organizational Behavior
Research in Organizational Behavior Psychology-Social Psychology
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期刊介绍: Research in Organizational Behavior publishes commissioned papers only, spanning several levels of analysis, and ranging from studies of individuals to groups to organizations and their environments. The topics encompassed are likewise diverse, covering issues from individual emotion and cognition to social movements and networks. Cutting across this diversity, however, is a rather consistent quality of presentation. Being both thorough and thoughtful, Research in Organizational Behavior is commissioned pieces provide substantial contributions to research on organizations. Many have received rewards for their level of scholarship and many have become classics in the field of organizational research.
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