Achievement Goal Orientation

What do I do with that? Achievement Goal Orientation, Intrinsic Motivation, and Creativity

Posted on 2nd August 2012 in Entrepreneurship and OD

After reading Tuesday's post, you may have been wondering, "what do I do with this?" More likely, you stopped reading somewhere in the first paragraph and hoped I'd never post something like that again. Today I'm going to try and decipher a bit of the academic mumbo-jumbo and make that research applicable.…

Research Bite: Achievement Goal Orientation, Intrinsic Motivation, and Creativity

Posted on 31st July 2012 in Entrepreneurship and OD

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by Joaquin Roca

Because of its relationship to outputs such as intrinsic motivation, risk taking and response to failure, group process, and general and task-specific self-efficacy, achievement goal orientation has the potential to have an impact on creativity. Dweck and Leggett (1988) noted that in achievement situations, people pursue one of two types of goals: performance goals, which drive individuals to be concerned with displaying competence; and mastery goals, which drive individuals to be concerned with gaining competence (Dweck & Leggett, 1988).

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Glossary: Achievement Goal Orientation

Posted on 24th June 2012 in Glossary

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by Joaquin Roca

Achievement Goal Orientation: an individual’s pattern of affect, behavior, and cognition resulting from the pursuit of achievement goals.…

Research Bite: Creativity

Posted on 20th June 2012 in Entrepreneurship and OD

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by Joaquin Roca

Florida (2004) noted that competitiveness in today’s economy is intimately linked to, and dependent upon, creativity. While new products tend to be the most visible outcomes of innovation, administrative innovations within organizations (i.e., changes in the way we manage people) are often more important and harder to manage (F.

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