Department of Management & Organisation

A short report from Li Wendong on his research findings presented in the conference.

Li Wendong at Sheraton New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Variations in job analysis ratings and perceptions of role breadth and job complexity provided by incumbents of the same job are meaningful and associated with incumbents’ identification of the relationship of their goals with others’. In the paper presented in 24th Annual SIOP Conference, Mr. LI Wendong from NUS conducted a study on this topic. He collected data from China and demonstrated that incumbents, who believed that their goals with others were cooperative, rather than competitive and independent, provided a) higher importance and level ratings on reasoning and interpersonal related skills, as well as personality requirements and b) higher level ratings of reasoning related ability requirements. They also perceived broader role breadth and higher level of job complexity.

Mr. Li shared his study with other researchers from the US (Fred Morgeson from MSU), Germany (Sandra Ohly from Goethe University) and HK (Dean Tjosvoldfrom Lingnan U). They discussed future research directions by introducing proactively, creativity into job analysis and job design areas and exploring social and contextual variables in job analysis ratings.