Relationships Among Organizational Entry Performance Goals, Subsequent Goals, and Performance in a Military Setting.
Abstract
Correlates of organizational entry performance goals; the relation between organizational entry goals and recruit training performance; and the relation between recruit training performance and post-recruit training goals were analyzed in a sample of over 1500 Marine Corps enlistees. It was found that: expectancy of being an outstanding Marine was the best single correlate of performance goal at the beginning of recruit training; organizational entry performance goal was the best single predictor of subsequent recruit training performance but accounted for only four percent of the variance in performance; recruit training performance was the best single predictor of post-recruit training goals. Implications for goal theory are discussed. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1978
- Accession Number
- ADA059031
Entities
People
- D. Neil Ashworth
- William H. Mobley
Organizations
- University of South Carolina