The attenuating effect of role overload on relationships linking self-efficacy and goal level to work performance

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Brown, SP; Jones, E; Leigh, TW
• 署名单位: University of Houston System; University of Houston; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.90.5.972
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 972-979
• 关键词: role overload; goals; self-efficacy; Work performance; MODERATED MEDIATION

摘要

The reported research examines the moderating effects of role overload on the antecedents and consequences of self-efficacy and personal goal level in a longitudinal study conducted in an industrial selling context. The results indicate that role overload moderates the antecedent effect of perceived organizational resources on self-efficacy beliefs. They also show that role overload moderates the direct effects of both self-efficacy and goal level on performance, such that these relationships are positive when role overload is low but not significant when role overload is high. Further, the results reveal a pattern of moderated mediation, in which goal level mediates the indirect effect of self-efficacy on performance when role overload is low but not when it is high. Implications for theory and managerial practice are discussed.