scholarly journals Different personal propensities among scientists relate to deeper vs. broader knowledge contributions

2015 ◽  
Vol 112 (12) ◽  
pp. 3653-3658 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas S. Bateman ◽  
Andrew M. Hess
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Journal ◽  
Work Behavior ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Knowledge Domains ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
Domain Specific Knowledge ◽  
Performance Goal Orientation

Scientific journal publications, and their contributions to knowledge, can be described by their depth (specialized, domain-specific knowledge extensions) and breadth (topical scope, including spanning multiple knowledge domains). Toward generating hypotheses about how scientists’ personal dispositions would uniquely predict deeper vs. broader contributions to the literature, we assumed that conducting broader studies is generally viewed as less attractive (e.g., riskier) than conducting deeper studies. Study 1 then supported our assumptions: the scientists surveyed considered a hypothetical broader study, compared with an otherwise-comparable deeper study, to be riskier, a less-significant opportunity, and of lower potential importance; they further reported being less likely to pursue it and, in a forced choice, most chose to work on the deeper study. In Study 2, questionnaire measures of medical researchers’ personal dispositions and 10 y of PubMed data indicating their publications’ topical coverage revealed how dispositions differentially predict depth vs. breadth. Competitiveness predicted depth positively, whereas conscientiousness predicted breadth negatively. Performance goal orientation predicted depth but not breadth, and learning goal orientation contrastingly predicted breadth but not depth. Openness to experience positively predicted both depth and breadth. Exploratory work behavior (the converse of applying and exploiting one’s current knowledge) predicted breadth positively and depth negatively. Thus, this research distinguishes depth and breadth of published knowledge contributions, and provides new insights into how scientists’ personal dispositions influence research processes and products.

Team goal orientation composition, team efficacy, and team performance: The separate roles of team leader and members

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 825-843 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiung-Yi Huang ◽  
Jia-Chi Huang ◽  
Yuhsuan Chang
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Team Performance ◽  
Team Leader ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Team Efficacy ◽  
Team Outcomes ◽  
Learning Goal ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
Performance Goal Orientation

AbstractThis study aims to examine team goal orientation composition regarding the different roles of a leader’s and team members’ collective goal orientation, and the effects of these on team outcomes. Data included 268 respondents from 64 teams. Results showed team members’ learning goal orientation has positive effect on team performance, mediated by team efficacy. Further, for the role of team leader, the results also revealed the same pattern. Study also showed a leader’s performance goal orientation has negatively related on team performance, mediated by team efficacy. Finally, taking both roles simultaneously, study indicated the interaction between a leader’s and members’ performance goal orientation has negatively related to team efficacy, and the interaction between a leader’s and members’ learning goal orientation has negatively related to team performance. This research contributes to the existing goal orientation theory by taking the different roles of team leader and members into consideration.

Effects of interaction between social comparison and state goal orientation on task performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Jiseon Shin ◽  
Hyunjoo Lee ◽  
Eunsun Ahn ◽  
Young Woo Sohn
Keyword(s):  
Social Comparison ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Task Performance ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Comparison Theory ◽  
Learning Goal ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
Performance Goal Orientation ◽  
Comparison Target

Drawing on social comparison theory, we explored the effects of the interaction between state goal orientation and directional social comparison on individuals' task performance. In most goal achievement situations, individuals are likely to perform in a social context, which warrants investigation of how the interplay between goal characteristics and surrounding social stimuli influences their performance. We conducted a state-based experiment with 162 undergraduate students, utilizing a 3 (state goal orientation: learning, prove performance, avoid performance) × 2 (social comparison: upward and downward) between-subjects design. When the learning goal orientation or the prove performance goal orientation were manipulated, individuals who had a comparison target performed better than did those who worked by themselves on the given task. In particular, when individuals with a learning goal orientation or a prove performance goal orientation had a downward comparison target their performance improved, whereas those with an avoid performance goal orientation performed better when they had an upward comparison target. Overall the findings explicate the joint roles of state goal orientation and social comparison in influencing task performance.

scholarly journals Psychological Empowerment: Antecedents From Goal Orientation and Consequences in Public Sector Employees

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz García-Juan ◽  
Ana B. Escrig-Tena ◽  
Vicente Roca-Puig
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Psychological Empowerment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Learning Goal ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
Public Sector Employees ◽  
Performance Goal Orientation

Recent research has encouraged the study of psychological empowerment in public organizations owing to its benefits for optimum service delivery and performance improvement in the public context. This study analyzes how learning goal orientation, prove-performance goal orientation, and avoid-performance goal orientation are related to psychological empowerment and how such empowerment influences well-being outcomes within the context of public employees. Analyses of data from 553 public-sector employees showed that only learning goal orientation strongly and positively influences psychological empowerment. Furthermore, the results support the positive and significant relationship between psychological empowerment and both job satisfaction and affective commitment and the negative link with job anxiety levels. Theoretical and practical implications, as well as future directions for the psychological empowerment issue, are discussed.

scholarly journals The Effect of Teaching Quality on Student Career Choice: The Mediating Role of Student Goal Orientation

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuatul Mahfud ◽  
Setyabudi Indartono ◽  
Ida Nugroho Saputro ◽  
Indah Utari
Keyword(s):  
Career Choice ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Vocational Students ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Learning Goal ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Quality Learning ◽  
Performance Goal Orientation

Introduction. Career choice is an essential stage for vocational students to identify suitability, readiness, and development of the capacity to work. However, until now, studies that discuss how vocational learning can shape students’ career choices are still limited and not yet widely discussed. This study aims to develop structural models to shape the maturity of student career choices, which involves teaching quality, learning goal orientation, and performance goal orientation in collaboratively and interactively. Specifically, this study aims to investigate the effects of teaching quality, learning goal orientation, and performance goal orientation on career choice. Also, it will help to examine the role of mediation for the student’s goal orientation under the influence of teaching quality. Materials and Methods. Data were collected randomly through an online questionnaire survey from 289 vocational students in the tourism field in Indonesia which included the culinary art and hospitality department. SEM analysis is used to test the path model and bootstrapping confidence interval estimate to test the mediation role. Results. This study revealed that teaching quality, learning goal orientation, and performance goal orientation are collaborative and interactive predictors of career choice of vocational students. Also, the learning goal orientation and performance goal orientation significantly mediate the effect of teaching quality on student career choices, and this mediation is partial. Discussion and Conclusion.This study also reinforces the theory that the success of achieving the learning outcome is significantly affected by external (e.g., teaching quality) and internal dimension (e.g., student goal orientation). Finally, it is recommended that vocational education practitioners should improve the quality of learning and teaching process by encouraging positiv e student goal orientation.

scholarly journals Peran Pernyataan Orientasi Tujuan Kinerja dan Pernyataan Orientasi Tujuan Pembelajaran terhadap Kemampuan Mahasiswa

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-234
Author(s):  
Ahmad Muzaki ◽  
Dyah Probowulan ◽  
Achmad Syahfrudin
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Test Performance ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Learning Goal ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
Orientation State ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Performance Goal Orientation

Objective orientation is a mental framework as individuals give an impression and respond to situations or events that they face. Typically there are two kinds of goal orientation, namely orientation of performance goals (performance orientation) and orientation of learning goals (learning goal orientation). The phenomenon that there are still students who are extension or extension of time in doing the Final Project are all caused by the ability possessed by the individual. There are three factors that underlie the ability; self-efficacy, goals and performance. The researcher followed up the existence problems in the 2015 Accounting Study Program with four samples of Higher Education in Jember Regency, there were 82 respondents to answer the questionnaire given. Therefore an analytical tool is needed to determine the abilities possessed by students of the Accounting Study Program in Jember Regency. In this study researchers will test performance goal orientation statements (state performance goal orientation) and statement of learning goal orientation (state learning goal orientation) on self-efficacy (self-efficacy), goals (goals) and performance (performance) that each individual has. Keywords:  Goal Orientation, State Goal Orientation Learning, State Performance Goal Orientation, Self-Efficacy, Goals and  Performance.

scholarly journals Learning Orientation, Working Smart, and Effective Selling

1994 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 39-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harish Sujan ◽  
Barton A. Weitz ◽  
Nirmalya Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Learning Orientation ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Motivational Orientations ◽  
Learning Goal ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Performance Goal Orientation

Learning and performance goal orientations, two motivational orientations that guide salespeople's behavior, are related to working smart and hard. Working smart is defined as the engagement in activities that serve to develop knowledge of sales situations and utilize this knowledge in selling behavior. It is found that a learning goal orientation motivates working both smart and hard, whereas a performance goal orientation motivates only working hard. The goal orientations also are found to be alterable through supervisory feedback. Furthermore, self-efficacy, salespeople's confidence in their overall selling abilities, is found to moderate some of the relationships with the goal orientations.

scholarly journals Impacts of Interpersonal Interaction on Creative Performance: The Moderating Effect of Goal Orientation

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-72
Author(s):  
Chao-Chan Wu ◽  
Fei-Chun Cheng ◽  
Wan-Yu Hsieh
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Interpersonal Interaction ◽  
Creative Performance ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Learning Goal ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Performance Goal Orientation

Abstract This study adopted a social perspective to explore the relationships of interpersonal interaction on creative performance and the moderating effect of goal orientation based on the social exchange theory and social capital theory. Interpersonal interaction was divided into two types, expressive relations and instrumental relations. Goal orientation was differentiated as learning goal orientation and performance goal orientation. Creative performance was divided into three facets, namely creative thinking, creative proposals, and creative applications. Data were collected from research and development engineers. The results show that expressive relations have positive effects on all aspects of creative performance, whereas instrumental relations have positive effects on creative applications. Learning goal orientation moderates the relationship between instrumental relations and creative proposals. Performance goal orientation has moderating effects on the relationship between interpersonal relations (both expressive and instrumental) and creative performance. This study addresses a gap in research into types of interpersonal interaction and goal orientation as these relate to creative performance. Keywords: Interpersonal interaction, Goal orientation, Creative performance.

scholarly journals Goal orientation and performance adaptation: A meta-analysis

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukasz Stasielowicz
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Subjective Ratings ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Meta Analyses ◽  
Performance Adaptation ◽  
Performance Goal Orientation

The relationship between goal orientation and performance adaptation across studies was assessed in the present article. The relevance of performance adaptation can be exemplified by the desire to optimize performance and mitigate the negative effects of change in organizational and educational contexts (i.e. new co-workers, new software, emergencies). Three-level meta-analyses were conducted for learning goal orientation (LGO) and performance goal orientation (PGO). Furthermore, within PGO a distinction between avoid performance goal orientation (APGO) and prove performance goal orientation (PPGO) could be made. In moderator analyses the influence of measurement method of performance adaptation (subjective ratings vs objective scores) was assessed amongst others. Although significant effects were found they were primarily visible for subjective ratings and not objective scores.

An empirical study of the impact of goal orientation on individual ambidexterity – moderating roles of goal interdependence and constructive controversy

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 465-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuting Xiang ◽  
Guoquan Chen ◽  
Wei Liu ◽  
Qiwei Zhou ◽  
Shuo Xing
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Constructive Controversy ◽  
Learning Goal ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Goal Interdependence ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Performance Goal Orientation

Purpose Ambidexterity is the source of organizational sustainable development and long-term success. However, understanding the role of individual ambidexterity in organizations remains underdeveloped. Recently, scholars have increasingly emphasized the importance of individual ambidexterity, calling for more research on the topic. This study aims to explore the factors influencing individual ambidexterity. It proposed that goal orientation would be related to individual ambidexterity, and perceived cooperative goal interdependence and constructive controversy would play moderating roles in this relationship. Design/methodology/approach The paper opted for a survey study. Questionnaires were distributed to enterprise managers from a part-time MBA program at a university located in Beijing, China. They were also asked to bring copies to their colleagues, so they could fill them out. The authors obtained 229 valid questionnaires and used hierarchical regression analysis to test the relationships. Findings The results revealed that both learning goal orientation and performance goal orientation were significantly and positively related to individual ambidexterity. Perceived cooperative goal interdependence and constructive controversy positively moderated the relationship between learning goal orientation/ performance goal orientation and individual ambidexterity. Practical implications The paper provides beneficial suggestions for both managers and employees. It offers a reference for managers regarding how to promote employee ambidexterity. It also provides suggestions for employee career development. Originality/value The paper explored the factors influencing ambidextrous activities at the individual level, a very scare approach in extant studies. It also constructed a systematic process mechanism of individual ambidexterity, integrating both internal and external factors.

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