Collective Efficacy and Group Functioning: The Effect of Performance Feedback on Efficacy Assessments, Goal Setting, Task Persistence and Overall Performance

摘要

This study examined the effect of collective efficacy on group functioning across a series of cognitive tasks. Specifically, this experiment used performance feedback to manipulate efficacy levels in order to investigate the effect of efficacy on group goal setting, task persistence, and overall performance. The effect of experimental manipulations and sequence were investigated at both the task specific (prediction for current task) and general efficacy (estimates of general competence on such tasks) levels. Finally, group behavior was examined across a series of tasks in order to investigate the dynamic properties of collective efficacy.