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3130 ORAL
Industrial/organizational psychology
Chair: Ronald Fischer, New Zealand
3130.1 Rewarding seniority: Exploring organizational and cultural determinants of
seniority-based allocations, Ronald Fischer, Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand
The present study investigates the use of seniority as a means to reward employees in
organizations in Britain, the US, New Zealand, and Germany. Employees from various
organizations are asked to indicate how often their organization uses seniority when deciding over
pay raises, promotions and dismissals. It is found that organizations with egalitarian cultures,
economically successful organizations and public sector organizations rely more on seniority.
Uncertainty avoidance predicts reliance on seniority at a culture level. The potential of seniority to
maintain and control conflict inherent in open systems and implications for the aging workforce in
Western societies are discussed.
3130.2 Social loafing in the continuous public good dilemma, Weipeng Hu, Kan Shi, Wing
Tung Au, China
The study investigated the effect of social value orientation, information structure and decision
time on the occurrence of social loafing in Public Good Dilemma. Results found that without
information feedback, social value orientation would significantly predict the occurrence of social
loafing; with the information feedback, social value orientation, information structure and decision
time would have effect on the occurrence of social loafing; moreover, both prosocial and proself
behave similarly at the beginning and at the end of the process; It seems that social value
orientation would be changed with the influence of other’s decision information under the social
interaction.
3130.3 Study on managers’ creativities, Guangzhu Liu, Wenli Chen, Management Psychology,
Human Resource Management, China
158 managers and 103 students were investigated with Creative Test Questionnaire and
Performance Maintenance Questionnaire. The results showed that there was no difference between
man and woman in their creativity by X²-test. So far the level of China enterprise manager
creativity is not high. The manager behaviors were divided into 4 kinds with the Performance
Maintenance Questionnaire. The difference of 4 kinds managers creativities was most sufficient by
X²-test. The comparison between students and managers showed the difference of
X²-test was sufficient. The students’ creativities were higher than that of present enterprise
managers.
3130.4 Study on the psychological qualities of Chinese woman enterprisers, Guangzhu Liu,
Xingmin Duan, Management Psychology, Human Resource Management, China
China women have special personalities and characters. Women engaged in management work
need fixed psychological qualities. The paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages and help
Chinese women become excellent enterprisers. Psychological quality includes the education
degree, the level of some knowledge, the function of psychology, the skill, the experience, the
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