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Goal Setting, Performance and Satisfaction in an Interdependent Task.
- Source :
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Organizational Behavior & Human Performance . Oct74, Vol. 12 Issue 2, p217-230. 14p. 4 Charts. - Publication Year :
- 1974
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Abstract
- This study was designed to determine the effect that goals have on performance and the effect that performance has on reported levels of satisfaction in a competitively structured task. The results of this study give strong evidence to Locke's theory (Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 1969, 4, 566-574) that the most immediate, direct motivational determinant of task performance is the subject's goal, and to Ilgen and Hamstra's theory (Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 1972, 7, 359-370) that satisfaction with one's performance is a function of the difference between actual performance and performance goals, and also a function of the difference between actual performance and performance of a reference person. Satisfaction and performance were found to be strongly related only up to the point where a person exceeds his goal or his reference person's outcome. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00305073
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Organizational Behavior & Human Performance
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 7719778
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0030-5073(74)90047-6