Types and choices of performance feedback
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Although research has clearly demonstrated that specific and timely feedback to individuals is beneficial to task performance, little attention has been paid to the content of the feedback on the most typical type of work tasks - tasks in which high performance along both quality and quantity dimensions is desired and in which quality and quantity are inversely related at high levels of performance. In a two-phased study, this research placed one group of 132 subjects on a task that required both quality and quantity performance. Performance feedback was than presented on either quality or quantity, or on both dimensions. In a second set of conditions the same types of feedback were made available to 90 subjects, but the subjects were now free to access or not to access the feedback. The results showed that the nature of the feedback affected performance on both dimensions and that allowing feedback choice improves overall performance. Results are discussed in terms of the benefits of feedback choices on multifaceted performance tasks. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Psychology
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-9010
Year: 1987
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Effects of goals and feedback on performance in groups
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In the first study, 26 undergraduate pairs and 52 individuals worked on a perceptual speed task for 20 minutes to win prizes based on performance. The pairs set group goals and individual goals to be attained, whereas the individuals set only individual goals. Despite the equal levels of individual goals set, goal acceptance and performance were significantly higher for the pairs than for the individuals. A stepwise hierarchical regression analysis supported the contributions of goal acceptance and group goals to performance. In the second study, 50 undergraduate pairs were assigned a goal to be attained as teams on a perceptual speed task lasting 15 minutes. Group and individual task feedback, given after 7 and a half minutes of work, significantly improved performance only for those subjects who were below target for either group or individual feedback, yielding interaction effects on performance. The implications of the findings for group goal setting, social loafing, and organizational effectiveness are discussed. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Psychology
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-9010
Year: 1987
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Time devoted to job and off-job activities, interrole conflict, and affective experiences
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Employed persons (N=20) were surveyed to examine the demands on their time from both work and nonwork activities and the degree of interrole conflict they experienced. Job interference with off-job activities and off-job interference with job commitments were separate but interrelated components of conflict. On-job time was associated with job interference, but off-job time was not linked with off-job interference. Job interference mediated the effect of time demands on satisfaction, organizational commitment, and psychological strain, whereas satisfaction linked interrole conflict and affective experiences. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Psychology
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-9010
Year: 1992
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