Effectiveness, performance, and motivation in a team-based environment

• Main Author: Little, Beverly L.
• Other Authors: Management
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: Virginia Tech 2014
• Subjects: LD5655.V856 1993.L568; Motivation (Psychology); Teams in the workplace > Management
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40054; http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10212005-122952/

This research explores the meaning and relationship of the constructs of effectiveness, performance, and motivation among teams in a high performance manufacturing setting. Effectiveness is defined as actual outcomes; performance is characterized as those types of behaviors required of teams to achieve those outcomes. Motivation at the team level of analysis is conceived as collective efficacy -- the members' confidence in their team's ability to perform. Two types of antecedents to collective efficacy are explored -- prior success and compositional characteristics of the teams. === Ph. D.