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- Title
Improving Performance in Groups: Effects of Two Different Goal-Setting Strategies and Feedback on Brainstorming Performance.
- Authors
Eisele, Per
- Abstract
An experiment was conducted with the aim of examining the joint effect of group feedback and group goal-setting (directive or participative). Goal-setting was believed to have positive effect on brainstorming performance because it counteracts motivation losses (e.g. social loafing) and promotes motivation gains (e.g. social compensation). Feedback helps individuals calibrate their degree of goal accomplishment, the level of effort needed to reach the goal, and changes that are necessary. Similarly, groups that set goals and receive feedback on their goals are more likely to improve their performance than groups that do not. Results showed that goal-setting, particularly participative, affected brainstorming performance while feedback did so only by interaction with goal-setting.
- Subjects
GOAL setting in personnel management; STRATEGIC planning; PSYCHOLOGICAL feedback; BRAINSTORMING; MOTIVATION (Psychology)
- Publication
Baltic Journal of Psychology, 2012, Vol 13, Issue 1, p45
- ISSN
1407-768X
- Publication type
Article