Self Rewarding as an Influence on Industrial Performance.
Abstract
An empirical investigation tests Blood's model of the interrelationships among variables that effect the relationship between performance and self rewarding (the latter being defined as the private, cognitive, affective consequence of a job behavior). This model conceives the relation between performance and self rewarding to be direct and reciprocal; it is moderated by the knowledge of performance goals and actual performance on one hand and by task interest and identification with the task and the product from the task on the other. The research design allowed for a test of Blood's model with both static (questionnaire-) data and with an experimental procedure that attempted to enhance goal- and performance recognition in order to strengthen the relation between self rewarding and performance. Three plants of a carpet manufacturing company acted as three separate samples in the analysis of the questionnaire- data and as two experimental and one control group respectively in the experimental phase of the research. The questionnaire results consistently confirmed the hypotheses derived from Blood's model when perceived performance was used as the criterion variable; using performance against Industrial Engineering standards as criterion did not result in confirmation of the hypotheses.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1978
- Accession Number
- ADA057150
Entities
People
- Milton R. Blood
- Th. J. F. Thoene
Organizations
- Georgia Tech