Goal orientation: Effects on backing up behavior, performance, efficacy, and commitment in teams

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Porter, COLH
• 署名单位: Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.90.4.811
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 811-818
• 关键词: teams; GOAL ORIENTATION; backing up behaviour; sffectiveness

摘要

The author examined the predictive validity of goal orientation in teams on both team process and outcome variables. Results indicate that when mean goal orientation scores were used as a way of describing team members' inputs, learning orientation Was related to backing up behavior, efficacy, and commitment. The:relationships between performance orientation and efficacy and commitment, however, Were more-complex and were clarified:when task performance was also taken into account. Performance orientation had a negative effect on efficacy. When task performance was,low, and a positive effect on commitment when task performance was high. The implications of these findings for theory and research on goal orientation in teams and team staffing bare discussed.