INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE AND SELF-EVALUATION AS A FUNCTION OF LEVEL TEAM OUTPUT.
Abstract
Four experiments were conducted to disclose the effect of team output on individual behavior. Level of team output was simulated by telling each subject that he had a partner and that posttrial feedback indicated their team score relative to average tracking performance. Actually, feedback indicated the subject's own tracking score relative to a criterion, the stringency of which was manipulated to generate the desired levels of simulated team feedback (poor, average, and good). The subjects accepted the credit for the good team scores produced by a lenient criterion but blamed their contrived partners for the poor team scores wrought by a stringent criterion. Individual performance tended to be directly related to simulated team output when task difficulty was low, but inversely related when task difficulty was high. These performance effects were highly transitory, however, and occurred only under limited conditions. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1967
- Accession Number
- AD0660593
Entities
People
- William A. Johnston
- William C. Howell
Organizations
- Ohio State University