Influence of Individual Values Dissimilarity in the Outcome of top Management Teams: a study in a management lab
Several studies relate organizational outcomes to the performance of top management teams (TMT). Some of these studies suggest that the process of strategic choice is influenced by the cognitive background and values of the executives in those teams, and have focused on the composition o...
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| author | Jorge Ramon D'Acosta Rivera Silvia Marcia Russi de Domenico Antonio Carlos Aidar Sauaia |
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| description | Several studies relate organizational outcomes
to the performance of top management teams
(TMT). Some of these studies suggest that
the process of strategic choice is influenced by
the cognitive background and values of the
executives in those teams, and have focused on
the composition of TMT, using demographic
variables as proxies for deep-level characteristics.
The aim of this descriptive and exploratory
study was to verify directly the influence of
deep-level characteristics – the dissimilarities of
TMT members’ individual values – on the team
outcomes. This research was carried out using a
quantitative method within a public university
management lab environment located in the
city of São Paulo, applying two value surveys
validated in Brazil on TMT composed of Business
Management and Accounting undergraduates
submitted to a business game situation, resulting
in a non-probabilistic sample formed of 32 teams
comprising 186 students with valid responses.
Through multiple linear regression technique,
two statistically significant regression models
were found. It was found that the improved
performance of TMT occurs when members differ
in the importance assigned to values related to
openness to change and have similar appreciation
of values related to rules and to security in life
(conservation values ) and the pursuit of power
(prestige), giving evidence that this can occur
not only in a laboratory environment, but also in
the business environment, where time pressures
and competition are even more severe and,
therefore, more subject to deep-level subjective
characteristics. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1af720da9bb34e728cac302b8201840a2022-12-21T22:21:31ZengFundação Escola de Comércio Álvares PenteadoRevista Brasileira de Gestão De Negócios1806-48921983-08072014-05-011650607410.7819/rbgn.v16i50.1653Influence of Individual Values Dissimilarity in the Outcome of top Management Teams: a study in a management labJorge Ramon D'Acosta Rivera0Silvia Marcia Russi de Domenico1Antonio Carlos Aidar Sauaia2Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie e da Fundação Getúlio VargasUniversidade Presbiteriana MackenzieUniversidade de São Paulo (USP)Several studies relate organizational outcomes to the performance of top management teams (TMT). Some of these studies suggest that the process of strategic choice is influenced by the cognitive background and values of the executives in those teams, and have focused on the composition of TMT, using demographic variables as proxies for deep-level characteristics. The aim of this descriptive and exploratory study was to verify directly the influence of deep-level characteristics – the dissimilarities of TMT members’ individual values – on the team outcomes. This research was carried out using a quantitative method within a public university management lab environment located in the city of São Paulo, applying two value surveys validated in Brazil on TMT composed of Business Management and Accounting undergraduates submitted to a business game situation, resulting in a non-probabilistic sample formed of 32 teams comprising 186 students with valid responses. Through multiple linear regression technique, two statistically significant regression models were found. It was found that the improved performance of TMT occurs when members differ in the importance assigned to values related to openness to change and have similar appreciation of values related to rules and to security in life (conservation values ) and the pursuit of power (prestige), giving evidence that this can occur not only in a laboratory environment, but also in the business environment, where time pressures and competition are even more severe and, therefore, more subject to deep-level subjective characteristics.http://rbgn.fecap.br/RBGN/article/view/1653Personal values.1Work values.1Top management teams.1Team outcomes.1Management lab.1 |
| spellingShingle | Jorge Ramon D'Acosta Rivera Silvia Marcia Russi de Domenico Antonio Carlos Aidar Sauaia Influence of Individual Values Dissimilarity in the Outcome of top Management Teams: a study in a management lab Revista Brasileira de Gestão De Negócios Personal values.1 Work values.1 Top management teams.1 Team outcomes.1 Management lab.1 |
| title | Influence of Individual Values Dissimilarity in the Outcome of top Management Teams: a study in a management lab |
| title_full | Influence of Individual Values Dissimilarity in the Outcome of top Management Teams: a study in a management lab |
| title_fullStr | Influence of Individual Values Dissimilarity in the Outcome of top Management Teams: a study in a management lab |
| title_full_unstemmed | Influence of Individual Values Dissimilarity in the Outcome of top Management Teams: a study in a management lab |
| title_short | Influence of Individual Values Dissimilarity in the Outcome of top Management Teams: a study in a management lab |
| title_sort | influence of individual values dissimilarity in the outcome of top management teams a study in a management lab |
| topic | Personal values.1 Work values.1 Top management teams.1 Team outcomes.1 Management lab.1 |
| url | http://rbgn.fecap.br/RBGN/article/view/1653 |
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