When Goal Orientations Collide: Effects of Learning and Performance Orientation on Team Adaptability in Response to Workload Imbalance

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Porter, Christopher O. L. H.; Webb, Justin W.; Gogus, Celile Itir
• 署名单位: Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; Oklahoma State University System; Oklahoma State University - Stillwater; Ihsan Dogramaci Bilkent University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/a0019637
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 935-943
• 关键词: GOAL ORIENTATION; collective learning orientation; collective performance orientation; learning orientation and performance orientation interactions; team adaptability

摘要

The authors draw on resource allocation theory (Kanfer & Ackerman, 1989) to develop hypotheses regarding the conditions under which collective learning and performance orientation have interactive effects and the nature of those effects on teams' ability to adapt to a sudden and dramatic change in workload. Consistent with the theory, results of a laboratory study in which teams worked on a computerized, decision-making task over 3 performance trials revealed that learning and performance orientation had independent effects on team adaptability when teams had slack resources available for managing their changed task. Time helped explain the independent effects of performance orientation. Results also revealed that learning and performance orientation had interactive effects when teams did not have slack resources. Finally, the results of this study indicate that teams lacking slack resources were better able to balance high levels of learning and performance orientation over time with practice on the changed task.