组织情境下的贪婪研究评述与展望

Greed in Organizational Context:A Literature Review and Prospects

贪婪指过度的欲望而不知满足,是一种广泛存在的人格特质,它在经济、管理、政治、生活等领域扮演着重要角色。本文在介绍贪婪概念与测量的基础上,分析了贪婪产生的原因,并总结了贪婪的影响结果,包括情绪、决策和行为三个方面,最后构建了一个贪婪研究的整合框架,并提出未来研究可从以下几点展开:进一步开发组织情境下贪婪的内涵和测量工具;探索不同程度的贪婪对员工的工作绩效和满意度以及管理者领导力的影响;探索组织内非物质性贪婪,如知识贪婪对知识隐藏行为、时间贪婪对创造力的影响;深入研究组织情境和个体贪婪的交互作用,如数字化背景下网络文化如何影响员工和领导者的贪婪决策;探索贪婪与组织结构、组织文化等其他组织领域研究主题的关系;关注贪婪的跨文化研究。

Greed refers to excessive desire without satisfaction.It is a widespread personality trait,which plays an important role in economy,management,politics,life and other fields.However,the current research on greed is relatively scattered,especially in the context of organizational management.In order to make up for this important gap in the previous literature,this paper systematically combs and critically summarizes the researches on greed in the context of organizational management.This paper firstly introduces the concept and measurement of greed,and points out the advantages and disadvantages of different concepts and measurements.On this basis,this paper analyzes the causes of greed,including the factors at the individual level,the situation level and the interaction between the individual and the situation level,and summarizes the impact of greed,including emotion,decision-making and behavior.It is worth pointing out that greed is a double-edged sword.It has both positive effects,such as enhancing competitiveness and driving organizational development,and negative consequences,such as excessive risk-taking decisions and unethical behaviors.Finally,this paper constructs an integrated framework of greed research,and proposes that future research can be carried out from the following aspects:(1)Further develop the connotation and measurement tools of greed in the organizational context.(2)Explore the impact of different degrees of greed on employees’job performance and satisfaction and managers’leadership.(3)Explore the immaterial greed in the organization,such as the impact of knowledge greed on knowledge hiding behavior and the impact of time greed on creativity.(4)Deeply study the interaction between organizational context and individual greed,such as how network culture affects the greedy decisions of employees and leaders in the digital context.(5)Explore the relationship between greed and organizational structure,organizational culture and other organizational research topics.(6)Focus on the cross-cultural research of greed.This paper attempts to make the following contributions:First,it systematically sorts out the concept of greed and the relationship between cause and effect,proposes an integrated research framework,and provides a new research topic and direction for the future study of greed.Second,based on the comprehensive analysis of relevant literature,it focuses on the manifestation and mechanism of greed in the context of organizational management,deepening and expanding the research on greed in the context of organizational management.Third,it has some enlightenment on how organizations and their managers deal with greed effectively in practice.In this paper,the influencing factors of greed are summarized as environment and individual and their interaction factors,which is helpful to comprehensively analyze the mechanism of greed in organizations and provide reference directions and ideas for organizations and individuals to effectively deal with greed.In addition,this paper has reference significance for organizations to reverse the negative effects of greed and make full use of its positive effects.