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Career Ambition and Employee Performance Behaviour: The Presence of Ideological Development

  • Hong Bui
  • , Shandana Shoaib
  • , Viet Ha Tran Vu
  • , Thanh Nguyen Quy
  • Université de Picardie Jules Verne
  • Vietnam National University, Hanoi
  • Institute of Management Sciences

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Abstract

This study develops and tests a theoretical model that investigates how career ambition can have an impact on different types of academics' performance behaviour, and how ideological development at work can affect this model in a special context of a communist country. In a study of 991 employees in a large university in Vietnam, the model is largely supported. The findings suggest that in-role behaviour has a significant mediating role in the effect of career ambition on extra-role behaviour and that this mediating effect is stronger among the group of employees who have participated in advanced ideological development in the context of Vietnamese higher education. This study advances the understanding of an underdeveloped relationship between career ambition and employee performance behaviour, and expands the knowledge of the impact of ideological development at work.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)302-312
Number of pages11
JournalJournal of General Management
Volume46
Issue number4
Early online date30 Jun 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jul 2021

Funding

The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The research was funded by the VNU, Hanoi, Grant No. QGDA.11.05.

Funders
VNU

    Keywords

    • career ambition
    • extra-role behaviour
    • ideological development
    • in-role behaviour

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)
    • Strategy and Management

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