THE HOT AND COOL OF DEATH AWARENESS AT WORK: MORTALITY CUES, AGING, AND SELF-PROTECTIVE AND PROSOCIAL MOTIVATIONS

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Grant, Adam M.; Wade-Benzoni, Kimberly A.
• 署名单位: University of Pennsylvania; Duke University
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.5465/AMR.2009.44882929
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 600-622
• 关键词: TERROR MANAGEMENT THEORY; JOB-ATTITUDES; DIRTY WORK; SALIENCE; AGE; GENERATIVITY; THOUGHTS; threat; LIFE; BEHAVIOR

摘要

Although death awareness is pervasive in organizations and can have powerful effects on employees' experiences and behaviors, scholars have paid little attention to it. We develop a theoretical model of the nature, antecedents, and consequences of death awareness at work. We differentiate death anxiety and reflection as distinct states that strengthen self-protective versus prosocial motivations, examine how mortality cues and aging processes trigger these states, and explore their impact on withdrawal and generative behaviors.