H2020Индивидуална стипендия2016–2018

Goal Attribution in Groups · Perceiving the intentions of the weakest link: How attributed individual and collective goals impact reactions to low performers in groups

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2016-09-01 → 2018-10-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 171 796 €
Участници: 2
Схема: MSCA-IF-GF

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Perceiving the intentions of the weakest link: How attributed individual and collective goals impact reactions to low performers in groups

Teams increasingly perform tasks at work, in institutions, and in social clubs. In doing this, team members are interdependent and team performance thus requires all members to contribute. A single low performer may hold the entire team back and lead to team failure. Teams should therefore be attuned to such performance deviance and immediately assess how to react. Surprisingly little research has been done on how teams do this: Attribution research indicates that team members react more harshly toward poor performers lacking motivation than ability. In the current project, Dr. Thürmer argues that this view is overly simplistic. First, teams should go beyond the motivation/ability dichotomy and take into consideration the underlying reason for the lack of motivation or the lack of ability. Second, perceived prosocial intent should be the process by which these attributions lead to negative team reactions. Dr. Thürmer investigates this question together with Prof. John Levine at the University of Pittsburgh, with Prof. Florian Kunze at the University of Konstanz and with Prof. Stefan Schulz-Hardt at the University of Göttingen. This attributional perspective on teams has the potential to improve the understanding of team function and social interaction, and to improve team performance. Given the central role that teams play in societies and corporations, this novel knowledge is highly useful.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Group work has become increasingly important for many tasks and services in organisations, and organisations thus depend on successful team function. The entire group’s performance may depend on the lowest performer (weakest link), but groups’ reactions to low performers are not well understood. We suggest that goal attributions are a neglected but potentially powerful factor: Did the low performer try to outperform others (individual goal) or contribute to the group (collective goal)? In the next step, groups should evaluate whether low performers were trying to succeed (but had insufficient abilities) or were not trying (i.e., had low goal commitment). Failing despite trying will lead to excluding competitive low performers (individual goal) but lead to training cooperative low performers (collective goal). Vice-versa, lack of commitment to the collective goal to cooperate should lead to exclusion, but in attempts to change the individual goal of a competitive low performer (socialisation). These hypotheses will be tested in a series of four experiments to attain the objectives of complementing Dr. Thürmer’s skillset in (1) small group theory, (2) small group laboratory experiments, (3) transformative multilevel statistics, and (4) to advance the translational transfer to organizational settings. Publications in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals will disseminate the research results widely. The proposed action will open up the immediate career opportunity to establish his independent research group, will substantially advance his research program, and is a crucial step towards becoming a full professor in Germany. Acquired start-up funding enables extensive pre-testing and will ensure the success of this action. This trans-disciplinary research project will contribute to motivation science, small group research, and organizational science and the findings will help European organisations that rely on group work to improve team functioning.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITAT KONSTANZ · KonstanzКоординаторГермания
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH · PittsburghСъединени щати