Job motivation of Canadian Anglophone and Francophone hospital employees.

Work value goals and instrumentalities; a comparison of canadian west‐coast Anglophone and Quebec City Francophone managers

“…The high-achievement value profile of these Francophone managers is at variance with the prevailing stereotype of Francophones as more interested in enjoyment and more easily satisfied, being less interested in work per se or in achievement in work (Kanungo and Bhatnagar, 1978;Jain et al, 1979; Kanungo, 1980). The Francophone managers examined may be a select group with a high achievement orientation, but it is clear that they can and do hold work expectations and aspirations which are just as demanding as those held by Anglophones.…”

“…Overall it would appear that these west-coast Anglophone and Quebec City Francophone managers are seeking the same sorts of job characteristics and allocating very similar priorities to both long-term value goals and to shorter term behavioural instrumentalities towards them. Why should this be the case when Kanungo and co-workers (Kanungo et al, 1976; Kanungo and Bhatnagar, 1978;Jain et al, 1979) indicate evidence of culture-based differences? Several questions and issues that pertain to sub-group and questionnaire characteristics are raised by this apparent discrepancy.…”

“…Inspired by the work cited above, yet in contrast to some of it (Kanungo et al, 1976; Jain et al, 1979), this study hypothesized a more collectivist work orientation (Taylor et al, 1972; Richer and Laporte, 1973) on the part of Quebec City managers with more emphasis on equality, yet one whose achievement orientation is just as high as their west-coast Anglophone counterparts. ,That is, Francophones are hypothesized to place more emphgsis on receiving equitable rewards and status from their work and are felt to be as willing and interested in personal achievement at work in order to accomplish this.…”

Meanings of Work and Personal Values of Canadian Anglophone and Francophone Middle Managers

“…Thus, Jain, Normand, & Kanungo, (1979) and Kanungo, Gorn, & Dauderis, (1 976), who did not control for SES, found differences in value priorities between the two ethnolinguistic groups on such dimensions as affiliation and autonomy and extrinsic versus intrinsic job values. They found Anglophone managers tended to value autonomy and intrinsic job values, such as achievement, whereas Francophone managers tended to value affili-261 ation and extrinsic job values, such as technical supervision.…”

“…Replicated signifcant differences showed that Anglophone managers gave more individualist responses and Francophone managers more collectivist responses to the antecedent value stimulus "If there is , then you have a JOB WHICH PROVIDES YOU WITH PERSONAL AUTONOMY," and to the consequent value stimulus "If you have a JOB WHICH ALLOWS YOU TO HELP OTHERS, then there is These results are consistent with the findings of other researchers. For example, Jain et al (1979) found that Anglophone workers considered the value of job autonomy to be more important than did Francophone workers. Also, Lortie-Lussier et al (1986) found that Anglophone children showed greater autonomy in problem solving than Francophone children.…”