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?
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?
- 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.
- 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.
- Value, refers to the value attached to these outcomes on a positive-negative dimension.
Which two extra steps are there in a group context?
- The relations between own performance and group performance, closely related to dispensability
- The relations between group outcomes and own outcomes, related to evaluation
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