Organizational virtuousness, subjective well-being, and job performance: Comparing employees in France and Japan

• MAGNIER-WATANABE, Remy

• BENTON, Caroline Fern

• Uchida, Toru

• Orsini, Philippe

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• Organizational virtuousness, subjective well-being, and job performance

Abstract

<jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Purpose Past research has convincingly shown that higher employee subjective well-being, or happiness, is a source of higher job performance and retention. This paper therefore examines the relationships between organizational virtuousness, subjective well-being, and individual job performance among French and Japanese employees. <jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire survey was conducted among Japanese and French managers and staff at Japanese and French domestic companies and structural equation modeling was employed to compare those associations. <jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Findings We found that the Japanese and the French have different conceptualizations of organizational virtuousness, suggesting that firms must tailor their virtue-building activities based on the local culture. Subjective well-being is comparatively more important in Japan since it acts in complement to organizational virtuousness to positively affect job performance, while in France, only organizational virtuousness counts as a source of job performance. <jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Research implications National culture is revealed to be a new factor explaining differences in how employees consider organizational virtuousness and we provide evidence of positive associations of organizational virtuousness with positive subjective well-being and with job performance for both the Japanese and the French. <jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Practical implications Organizational virtuousness cannot be construed from a universalistic perspective where virtues are conceptualized on the same basis regardless of location or region, and firms should also consider their employees' individualist or collectivist inclination when trying to influence work outcomes. <jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Originality/value These findings point to the role of national culture on the perception of organizational virtuousness and its effect on subjective well-being and job performance.

Journal

• Asia-Pacific journal of business administration

  Asia-Pacific journal of business administration 12 (2), 115-138, 2020-03

  Emerald Publishing Limited

Keywords

• Public Administration
• General Business, Management and Accounting

Details

• CRID: 1050848249903100544
• NII Article ID: 120007127602
• NII Book ID: AA12849268
• DOI: 10.1108/apjba-10-2019-0210
• HANDLE: 2241/00160277
• ISSN: 17574323
• Web Site: https://tsukuba.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/54871
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• Text Lang: en
• Article Type: journal article
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