Incremental effects of reward on experienced performance pressure: positive outcomes for intrinsic interest and creativity
✍ Scribed by Robert Eisenberger; Justin Aselage
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 170 KB
- Volume
- 30
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0894-3796
- DOI
- 10.1002/job.543
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Two field studies and a laboratory study examined the influence of reward for high performance on experienced performance pressure, intrinsic interest and creativity. Study 1 found that employees' expected reward for high performance was positively related to performance pressure which, in turn, was positively associated with the employees' interest in their jobs. Study 2 replicated this finding and showed that intrinsic interest, produced by performance pressure, was positively related to supervisors' ratings of creative performance. Study 3 found that college students' receipt of reward for high performance increased their experienced performance pressure which, in turn, was positively related to intrinsic interest and creativity. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.