Organizational Mindsets Predict Cultural Norms and Employee Trust and Commitment

In two studies, we advance the theory of personal mindsets by investigating people’s perceptions of an organization’s mindset and their link to company culture. We define organizational mindsets as people’s beliefs about whether their organization views talent as fixed or acquirable. In Study 1, an experiment, people read fixed or growth mindset mission statements from Fortune 500 companies. Companies with more of a fixed versus growth mindset...