Zero-Sum Construal of Workplace Success Promotes Initial Work Role Behavior by Activating Prevention Focus: Evidence From Chinese College and University Graduates

Frontiers in Psychology
Haiyan Zhang, Shuwei Sun

Abstract

Given that the population of Chinese college and university graduates has become larger and larger year by year since 1999, the problem of individual graduate's employment and workplace adaptability has captured widespread social concern and interest from both scholars and practitioners. Initial work role behavior is essential to an individual graduate's successful adaptation to the workplace and sustainable career development as a new employee. Based on social cognition theory, sense-making theory, and regulatory focus theory, we argue that the individual graduate's zero-sum construal of workplace success is a key factor influencing his or her initial workplace adaptability, which not only directly augments initial work role behavior but also elicits the new employee's inclination toward prevention focus, which in turn enhances initial work role behavior in the context of China's present steady economic development. Moreover, the individual graduate's average pay level moderates the mediating effect of prevention focus, such that the higher the average pay level is, the stronger the positive effect of zero-sum construal on initial work role behavior via prevention focus becomes. Two-stage survey data from 258 Chinese universit...Continue Reading

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