New venture employee accountability: an analytic-holistic cognition theory
本文提出一个理论模型，探讨员工的社会阶层背景如何通过分析-整体认知倾向影响他们在新创企业中的问责感知，并分析这对企业绩效和生存的实践意义。
How employees perceive and navigate workplace accountability is of growing interest. Traditionally, research has centered on people in large, established organizations focusing on professionals, often from majority groups, further homogenizing and limiting knowledge of this important phenomenon. However, employment in new entrepreneurial ventures creates unique demands for employees grounded in highly tacit and fluid role expectations. Integrating research from social class and cultural psychology on Analytic-Holistic cognition orientations, I advance a theoretical model examining how the upbringings employees are socialized into can nurture felt accountability differentially. These distinctions generate both challenges and opportunities for new ventures with practical consequences for performance and ultimately, survival. Specifically, I probe how less privileged backgrounds tend to imbue holistic cognition tendencies while more privileged backgrounds cultivate analytic cognition tendencies. These orientations influence how new venture employees navigate oftentimes unspoken workplace expectations and perceive accountability at work. Implications for theory and practice are discussed, emphasizing the value of social class perspectives to advance insights on understudied groups in entrepreneurial employment settings.