Journal article
Goal setting in teams: The impact of learning and performance goals on process and performance
Organizational behavior and human decision processes, Vol.122(1), pp.12-21
09/01/2013
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2013.03.008
Abstract
This study examined the impact of three alternative types of goals (specific learning, general "do your best" learning, and specific performance) on team performance. Eighty-four-person teams engaged in an interdependent command and control simulation in which the team goal and task complexity were manipulated. Contrary to research at the individual level, teams with specific learning goals performed worse than did teams with general "do your best" learning goals or specific performance goals. The negative effects of specific learning goals relative to general "do your best" learning goals and specific performance goals were amplified under conditions of increased task complexity and were explained by the amount of coordination in the teams. (c) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Goal setting in teams: The impact of learning and performance goals on process and performance
- Creators
- Jennifer D. Nahrgang - Arizona State UniversityD. Scott DeRue - University of Michigan–Ann ArborJohn R. Hollenbeck - Michigan State UniversityMatthias Spitzmuller - National University of SingaporeDustin K. Jundt - Saint Louis UniversityDaniel R. Ilgen - Michigan State University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Organizational behavior and human decision processes, Vol.122(1), pp.12-21
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.obhdp.2013.03.008
- ISSN
- 0749-5978
- eISSN
- 1095-9920
- Number of pages
- 10
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/01/2013
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship
- Record Identifier
- 9984403065002771
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