When career success enhances employees' life satisfaction: different effects of two types of goal orientations

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Byoung Kwon Choi ◽  
Eun Young Nae
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Career Success ◽  
Moderated Mediation ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Subjective Career Success ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Learning And Performance

PurposeDrawing on goal orientation theory, the authors propose a moderated mediation model, wherein objective career success is positively related to employees' life satisfaction through subjective career success moderated by learning and performance goal orientations.Design/methodology/approachData were collected from 188 employees in South Korea. The hypotheses were tested with the moderated mediation regression analysis.FindingsThe results indicated that salary and promotion, as indicators of objective career success, were positively related to subjective career success. However, subjective career success mediated only the influence of salary, not promotion, on life satisfaction. Furthermore, the authors found that the indirect relationship between salary and life satisfaction via subjective career success was not significant for employees with high learning goal orientation but was significant for those with high performance goal orientation.Practical implicationsOrganizations need to understand that a higher salary and frequent promotions may not always be positively related to employees' satisfaction with career and personal life and should consider the types of goal orientations.Originality/valueThe authors’ consideration of goal orientation as a dispositional characteristic contributes to the comprehensive understanding of how employees' learning and performance goal orientations interact with objective career success in influencing their subjective career and life satisfaction.

scholarly journals The effects of achievement goal orientations and safety climate on safe and unsafe behavior

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 367-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
JiHee Jung ◽  
YoungSeok Park
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Achievement Goal ◽  
Achievement Goal Orientations ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Unsafe Behaviors ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Mastery Avoidance ◽  
Avoidance Goal

The purpose of this study is to test the effect of achievement goal orientations and safety climate on safe and unsafe behaviors. Safe behaviors were measured by observances and automatic safe behaviors, and unsafe behaviors by violations and mistakes. Three fifty employees from corporations were participated in this research. Both mastery approach goal and performance approach goal orientations have significant positive relations with the safe behaviors and negative relations with the unsafe behaviors, but both mastery avoidance goal and performance avoidance goal orientations have significant negative relations with the safe behaviors and positive relations with the unsafe behaviors. This results suggest to confirm the multiple goal perspective of the achievement goal orientation argued both mastery goal and performance goal orientations have relations with adaptive and maladaptive behaviors. Safety climates measured by five factors, management values, safety practice, safety training, safety communication, and supervisor leadership, were significant positive relations with safe behaviors and negative relations with unsafe behaviors. Specially safety climates have significantly stronger correlations with unintentional behaviors(automatic safe behavior and mistake) than intentional behaviors(observance and violation). The relative contributions of individual variables and organizational variables to safe and unsafe behaviors were discussed.

THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG ACHIEVEMENT, GOAL ORIENTATION, AND STUDY STRATEGIES

2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (8) ◽  
pp. 823-832 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdulqader A. Al-Emadi
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Study Strategies ◽  
Achievement Goal Orientation ◽  
Deep Processing ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Surface Processing ◽  
Mastery Goal ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Negative Predictor

The purpose of this study was to test a model of relations among goal orientation, study strategies and achievement. The model postulated that academic achievement and goal orientations are related where achievement is related positively to mastery and performance goals but related negatively to avoidance. The mastery goal was postulated as a positive predictor of deep processing but a negative predictor of disorganization; the performance goal was posited as a positive predictor of surface processing and deep processing and a negative predictor of disorganization. The performance avoidance goal was posited as a positive predictor of disorganization, but a negative predictor of deep processing and surface processing. As predicted, the mastery goal was a positive predictor of deep processing, the performance goal was a positive predictor of surface processing and avoidance was a positive predictor of disorganization. Achievement was a positive predictor of both surface processing and disorganization

Effectuation (EF) and Causation (CS) on Venture Performance and Entrepreneurs’ Dispositions Affecting the Reliance on EF and CS

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jang Hyo Yoon ◽  
Erin Cho
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Average Growth ◽  
Venture Performance ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
Subjective Assessments ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
And Performance

Abstract This study investigates whether and how different decision logics (i.e., effectuation and causation) are linked to venture performance (i.e., annual average growth in revenue and profit as well as subjective assessments of venture performance and funding status). We also examine how dispositional characteristics of an entrepreneur (i.e., learning and performance goal orientations, ambiguity tolerance, desire for change, and locus of control) influence the use of different decision logics. The results indicate that causation has a significantly positive effect on revenue growth as well as subjective assessments of venture performance and funding status, while effectuation has a significantly negative effect on profit growth. We find that learning-goal orientation leads to a greater reliance on effectuation, while performance-goal orientation increases the use of causation. An internal locus of control positively affects the reliance on both effectuation and causation, while the desire for change increases the use of effectuation.

scholarly journals Validation of a Measure of Learning and Performance Goal Orientations

1994 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 1013-1021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Debacker Roedel ◽  
Gregory Schraw ◽  
Barbara S. Plake
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Learning 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 Goal Orientation & Metacognitive Self-Regulation Students on Discourse Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deasyanti Deasyanti ◽  
Santi Yudhistira
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
Instructional Model ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
And Performance

Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has impacted throughout all aspects of human life including education.  Despite the previously applied distance education or e-learning in the conventional education, nowadays this instructional model became a newly common approach in education. Therefore, students have to make some adjustments in their learning approach in order to reach out their learning goals. Self-regulated learning (SRL) is a process of monitoring and controlling learning behaviors to achieve learning goals. One of the key factors that contribute to SRL is achievement goal orientation. The aim of this study is to find out the role of types of goal orientation towards metacognitive self-regulation. A total of 320 undergraduate students participated in this study. The findings showed that performance approach and performance avoidance were the significant predictors of metacognitive self-regulation. Students’ preferences to performance goal-orientations were associated with the preliminary study findings that the new instructional model was related to decreased students’ efficacy in learning and feelings of uncertainty to their academic achievement.

Networking behavior: from goal orientation to promotability

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 907-927 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yin-Mei Huang
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Nomological Network ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Networking Behavior ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose – Networking behaviors assist individuals in doing their jobs better and advancing their careers. However, most research emphasizes the effects of job characteristics on networking behaviors, neglecting the effects of individual differences in goal orientations. Moreover, few studies investigate the prospective evaluation of promotability and the mediating effect of networking behavior on the relationship between goal orientation and promotability. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to clarify the nomological network and to expand the domain of networking behavior by identifying networking as career- and community-based networking behaviors and by examining the differential relationships among goal orientation, networking behaviors, and promotability. Design/methodology/approach – This study surveyed and collected data from 160 financial employees and 103 supervisors working at branches of a large bank in Taiwan. Questionnaires addressing both networking behavior and goal orientation were distributed to employees, and one week later their supervisors were sent another survey about employees’ promotability evaluations. Findings – Learning goal orientation was positively related to both career- and community-based networking behaviors. Performance goal orientation was also positively related to career-based networking behaviors, but negatively related to community-based networking behaviors. Career-based networking behaviors, particularly maintaining contacts and engaging in professional activities, were found to be positively related to promotability. Results also show that career-based networking behaviors, particularly maintaining contacts and engaging in professional activities, mediated the relationship between goal orientation and promotability. Research limitations/implications – This study addresses the importance of distinguishing between networking behaviors as career based and networking behaviors as community based and shows that these two sets of networking behaviors arise from different goal orientations and have differential effects on supervisory evaluation of promotability. Practical implications – By linking networking behavior with promotability, this study helps managers understand how employees’ enactment of specific networking behaviors can facilitate both the employees’ career development and the employees’ placement in important organizational positions. Originality/value – This study fulfills an identified need to understand the nomological network of networking behavior.

Fostering individual-level absorptive capacity and adaptive performance through leadership context

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karun Pratoom
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Adaptive Performance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Leadership Context ◽  
And Performance ◽  
High Level

PurposeThis study aims to examine the effects of trait goal orientations (mastery, performance-prove and performance-avoid goals) on individual-level absorptive capacity (AC), ultimately adaptive performance. This study also explores the cross-level moderating effects of transformational leadership climate on these mediated relationships.Design/methodology/approachData from 480 participants in 76 teams from accounting firms in Northeast Thailand were analyzed using the multilevel method.FindingsFindings showed support for positive indirect effects from approach-related goal orientations (mastery and performance-prove) to adaptive performance via AC and a negative indirect effect from avoid goal orientation to adaptive performance via AC. Results showed that a transformational leadership climate strengthens the relationship between goal orientations and AC, but only when team members have a high level of approach-related goals.Originality/valueThis study extends previous work by providing an understanding of how a transformational leadership context and the differences in goal orientations interact to promote or impede an individual's AC. It also extends our understanding of the mechanism of how AC mediated the effects of trait goal orientations and transformational leadership climate on adaptive performance.

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