Ambitions

Pettigrove, Glen

doi:10.1007/s10677-006-9044-4

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“…With a shift of responsibility for careers away from organizations to individuals, employees are increasingly called to take ownership of their own work and life experiences (Arthur et al , 2017). There is also increasing positive recognition for exhibiting ambition in their work context – previously considered a negative individual trait (Larimer et al , 2007; Pettigrove, 2007). Indeed, employee ambition is now regularly associated with increased work performance (Huang et al , 2014) and career satisfaction (Judge and Kammeyer-Mueller, 2012).…”

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Ambition at work and career satisfaction

Baroudi

Fleisher

Khapova³

et al. 2017

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the moderating role of pay in the relationship between employee ambition and taking charge behavior, and its subsequent effects on employee career satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach A two-wave quantitative investigation was conducted among alumni of a large public university in the Netherlands. Findings The results show that taking charge behavior mediates the positive relationship between employee ambition and career satisfaction. They also show that pay positively moderates this mediation, such that the relationship between employee ambition and taking charge behavior is stronger when ambitious employees receive an increase in pay, leading to increased career satisfaction. Conversely, a decrease in pay does not moderate ambitious employees’ taking charge behavior and the impact on their career satisfaction. Research limitations/implications The study draws on self-report data collected in one country: the Netherlands. Practical implications The study highlights the importance of pay for higher job involvement, demonstrating its impact on taking charge behavior among employees with higher levels of ambition. Originality/value This is the first empirical study to examine the impact of pay on employees’ taking charge behavior and the subsequent implications for career satisfaction.

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“…the elevation of appearance over substance, celebrity over character, short-term gain over lasting achievement" (Obama, 2009). As the foregoing references suggest, ambition is often if not generally viewed negatively, though it remains unclear whether it is a virtue or a vice (Pettigrove, 2007).…”

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On the value of aiming high: The causes and consequences of ambition.

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Kammeyer‐Mueller

2012

Journal of Applied Psychology

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Ambition is a commonly mentioned but poorly understood concept in social science research. We sought to contribute to understanding of the concept by developing and testing a model in which ambition is a middle-level trait (Cantor, 1990)-predicted by more distal characteristics but, due to its teleological nature, more proximally situated to predict career success. A 7-decade longitudinal sample of 717 high-ability individuals from the Terman life-cycle study (Terman, Sears, Cronbach, & Sears, 1989) was used in the current study. Results indicated that ambition was predicted by individual differences-conscientiousness, extraversion, neuroticism, and general mental ability-and a socioeconomic background variable: parents' occupational prestige. Ambition, in turn, was positively related to educational attainment, occupation prestige, and income. Ambition had significant total effects with all of the endogenous variables except mortality. Overall, the results support the thesis that ambition is a middle-level trait-related to but distinct from more distal individual difference variables-that has meaningful effects on career success.

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“…The ambition that someone has with the innovation practice seems to help to put an intended intervention into practice. Ambition in this case is seen as a desire that reaches above the current situation (Pettigrove, 2007).…”

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Learning to innovate : a series of studies to explore and enable learning in innovation practices

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Ambitions

Abstract: Ambition is a curiously neglected topic in ethics. It isn't that philosophers have not discussed it.

Cited by 25 publications

References 9 publications

Ambition at work and career satisfaction

Ambition at work and career satisfaction

On the value of aiming high: The causes and consequences of ambition.

Learning to innovate : a series of studies to explore and enable learning in innovation practices

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