Motivation and group performance: individual effort on collective tasks

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What are motivation losses in groups?

  • The Ringelmann effect
  • Potential performance, all individual performances added up
  • Coordination loss and motivation loss
  • Social loafing and evaluation
  • Social loafing and social facilitation
  • Free-riding and the sucker effect, when contribution is dispensable

What are motivation gains in groups?

  • Social compensation
  • The Köhler effect
  • Motivation gain
  • Coordination gain

Which two motives are there in the Köhler effect?

  • Individualistic motives: Social comparisons and competition
  • Group motives:  Indispensability for the group success
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What is coordination loss?

Members do not combine their contributions in the best way to produce the group output.

Which two motives are within the Kolher effect?

  • Individualistic motives, upward social comparison and competition (more by men)
  • Social motives, people don’t like the idea their group will perform badly because of them (being the weakest link is indispensable)

What does the expectancy-value theory assume?

It assumes that motivation is a multiplicative function of three factors:
  1. Expectancy, refers to the belief that effort will result in performance, and is closely related to self-efficacy. With high expectancy a person believes that he/she can do it.
  2. Instrumentality, refers to the belief that performance will result in certain outcomes. Is high when a person believes in a certain outcome are closely linked to performance.
  3. Value, refers to the value attached to these outcomes on a positive-negative dimension.

Which two extra steps are there in a group context?

  1. The relations between own performance and group performance, closely related to dispensability
  2. The relations between group outcomes and own outcomes, related to evaluation

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