Conscious and nonconscious goal pursuit in multidimensional tasks

IF 3.6 2区 管理学 Q1 BUSINESS, FINANCE
Joanna Andrejkow , Leslie Berger , Lan Guo
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Abstract

Multidimensional tasks are often characterized by goal conflict as individuals struggle to simultaneously balance and monitor multiple performance goals. Motivated by the recent psychology research on conscious and nonconscious goal pursuit, we hypothesize that conveying the importance of one performance goal consciously while priming the other performance goal nonconsciously will help individuals more effectively pursue multiple performance goals simultaneously and ultimately improve overall task performance. We conduct a laboratory experiment, using a real-effort multidimensional task, to test our hypotheses and find evidence to confirm our predictions. Our research contributes to the scant accounting research on nonconscious processes. It also provides a novel solution to the goal conflict problem in a multidimensional task setting.

多维任务中有意识和无意识的目标追求
多维任务通常以目标冲突为特征,因为个体要努力同时平衡和监控多个性能目标。受近期关于有意识和无意识目标追求的心理学研究的启发,我们假设有意识地传达一个绩效目标的重要性,同时无意识地启动另一个绩效目标,将有助于个体更有效地同时追求多个绩效目标,最终提高整体任务绩效。我们进行一个实验室实验,使用一个真正努力的多维任务,来测试我们的假设,并找到证据来证实我们的预测。我们的研究有助于对无意识过程的会计研究不足。它还为多维任务设置中的目标冲突问题提供了一种新的解决方案。
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CiteScore
7.80
自引率
6.40%
发文量
38
期刊介绍: Accounting, Organizations & Society is a major international journal concerned with all aspects of the relationship between accounting and human behaviour, organizational structures and processes, and the changing social and political environment of the enterprise.
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