Relationships Among Organizational Entry Performance Goals, Subsequent Goals, and Performance in a Military Setting.

摘要

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)