Role of Assigned Team Goals in the Relationship Between Individual Difference Factors and Self-Set Goals in A Pre-Team Context
Anupama Narayan · OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network) · 2009
Role of Assigned Team Goals in the Relationship between Individual Difference Factors and Self-Set Goals in a Pre-Team Context.The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of individual difference factors, i.e., core self evaluations, cognitive ability, and task specific self-efficacy, on self-set goals and whether those effects were moderated by an assigned team goal in a pre-team context.It was hypothesized that the relationship between individual difference factors and self-set goals for potential team members would be differentially affected by the difficulty of the assigned team goal.I assessed these relationships for individual performance and individual satisfaction.In addition, I examined whether gender, task type, and team composition interacted in their effects on self-set goals.A total of 836 university students (404 males and 434 females) participated in this study.Team assigned goal (easy or difficult), team task type (quantitative or verbal) and team composition (all males, all females, and cross-balanced) were manipulated to create 12 experimental conditions.The task was to generate a high school level knowledge test by selecting, solving, and categorizing items from a predetermined test bank that was created for the purposes of this study.To accomplish this, participants set a goal for their