Undesirable Effects of Goal Setting on Perceived Fairness, Commitment, and Unethical Behavior
| Autor: | Nina Keith |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Subjective variables 05 social sciences Psychological intervention Goal commitment Transparency (behavior) 050105 experimental psychology Task (project management) 0502 economics and business 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Laboratory experiment Psychology Goal setting Social psychology 050203 business & management Applied Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie A&O. 62:97-107 |
| ISSN: | 2190-6270 0932-4089 |
| DOI: | 10.1026/0932-4089/a000267 |
| Popis: | Abstract. The positive effects of goal setting on motivation and performance are among the most established findings of industrial–organizational psychology. Accordingly, goal setting is a common management technique. Lately, however, potential negative effects of goal-setting, for example, on unethical behavior, are increasingly being discussed. This research replicates and extends a laboratory experiment conducted in the United States. In one of three goal conditions (do-your-best goals, consistently high goals, increasingly high goals), 101 participants worked on a search task in five rounds. Half of them (transparency yes/no) were informed at the outset about goal development. We did not find the expected effects on unethical behavior but medium-to-large effects on subjective variables: Perceived fairness of goals and goal commitment were least favorable in the increasing-goal condition, particularly in later goal rounds. Results indicate that when designing goal-setting interventions, organizations may consider potential undesirable long-term effects. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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