What is it about?
Research has identified virtue, competence, and dominance as distinct routes to gaining status at work. Our paper shows that how these routes combine also matters. The most effective profile for attaining status features high virtue and competence with low dominance. This highlights that reaching top status requires a specific combination of these routes, rather than reliance on just one.
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Why is it important?
This work is unique in its comprehensive approach to understanding workplace status by integrating person- and variable-centered perspectives. It highlights how different combinations of virtue, competence, and dominance shape individual status more effectively than previously recognized. By revealing that high virtue and competence—paired with low dominance—can lead to the highest status, this research challenges traditional views that emphasize each route in isolation.
Perspectives
This paper represents a significant advance in the moral virtue theory of status attainment that I have been developing. I hope this new perspective, which integrates variable- and person-centered approaches, will help address longstanding questions and debates while opening new avenues for status research.
Feng Bai
University of Macau
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This page is a summary of: How virtue, competence, and dominance conjointly shape status attainment at work: Integrating person-centered and variable-centered approaches., Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, August 2024, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/pspa0000403.
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