Stephan J Motowidlo
Biographic Data
| ID | 3479708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephan J Motowidlo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephan J |
| FAMILY NAME | Motowidlo |
| SIGNATURE | MOTOWIDLO S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Personnel Decisions Research Institute Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Job Performance
This chapter presents an overview of job performance as it is conceptualized in the industrial–organizational psychology literature. It includes a definition of job performance that emphasizes the behavioral, episodic, and aggregate nature of the construct. The chapter reviews and discusses several well-established multidimensional models of job performance, along with emerging theories of performance such as adaptive performance and trait activa…
Task Performance and Contextual Performance: The Meaning for Personnel Selection Research
This article distinguishes between task and contextual activities, and a taxonomy of contextual performance containing elements of organizational citizenship behavior and prosocial organizational behavior is offered. Evidence is presented demonstrating that supervisors weight roughly equally subordinate task and contextual performance when making overall judgments of their performance. This, along with data showing that personality successfully p…
Interpersonal facilitation and job dedication as separate facets of contextual performance.
This study attempts to refine the construct of contextual performance by dividing it into 2 narrower constructs, interpersonal facilitation and job dedication. Supervisors rated 975 U.S. Air Force mechanics on at least 1 of 4 aspects of job performance (different supervisors rated each aspect of performance), and 515 of these mechanics also completed self-report individual difference measures. Correlations between performance ratings and individu…
Evidence that task performance should be distinguished from contextual performance.
This study tests the merit of the distinction made by W. C. Borman and S. J. Motowidlo (1993) between task performance and contextual performance. Supervisors rated 421 U.S. Air Force mechanics on their task performance, contextual performance, and overall performance. Data on length of air force experience, ability, training performance, and personality were also available for many of these mechanics. Results showed that both task performance an…
Prosocial Organizational Behaviors
Occupational stress: Its causes and consequences for job performance.
This paper reports two studies of occupational stress and its relation with antecedent variables and job performance. The first study, in which 104 nurses participated in group discussions and 96 nurses completed a questionnaire, identified 45 stressful events for nurses. In the second study, 171 nurses who completed another questionnaire were also rated by a supervisor and/or a co-worker. Ratings of interpersonal aspects of job performance (such…
Sex role orientation and behavior in a work setting
A Scoring Procedure for Sex-Role Orientation Based On Profile Similarity Indices
This paper presents a scoring procedure for sex-role orientation that is based on indices of profile similarity reflecting how similar an individual is to androgynous, undifferentiated, masculine, and feminine sex-role types. Data is presented to show that the profile scores are reasonably reliable and consistent with a widely used typological scoring procedure in how sex-role types are defined. Because it yields continuous scores, the profile sc…
Construct Validity for a Measure of Generalized Expectancy of Task Success
This report presents results of correlational analyses bearing on the construct validity of the Estimate of Self-Competence (ESC) scale which was designed to measure generalized expectancy of task success. Three groups of university students completed the ESC and a variety of other measures. People with high ESC scores report stronger expectations of performing well in a university course if they apply effort, are more internal in their locus of …
Development of a Measure of Generalized Expectancy of Task Success
This report describes the development of the Estimate of Self-Competence (ESC) scale. The instrument was designed to measure generalized expectancy of task success, a trait which is presumed to reflect persons' beliefs regarding their likelihood of success in task situations and which accordingly has important implications for the study of expectancy theories of task motivation. A questionnaire containing the initial pool of 99 items was administ…
Development of a Measure of Generalized Expectancy of Task Success
This report describes the development of the Estimate of Self-Competence (ESC) scale. The instrument was designed to measure generalized expectancy of task success, a trait which is presumed to reflect persons' beliefs regarding their likelihood of success in task situations and which accordingly has important implications for the study of expectancy theories of task motivation. A questionnaire containing the initial pool of 99 items was administ…
A Scoring Procedure for Sex-Role Orientation Based On Profile Similarity Indices
This paper presents a scoring procedure for sex-role orientation that is based on indices of profile similarity reflecting how similar an individual is to androgynous, undifferentiated, masculine, and feminine sex-role types. Data is presented to show that the profile scores are reasonably reliable and consistent with a widely used typological scoring procedure in how sex-role types are defined. Because it yields continuous scores, the profile sc…
Construct Validity for a Measure of Generalized Expectancy of Task Success
This report presents results of correlational analyses bearing on the construct validity of the Estimate of Self-Competence (ESC) scale which was designed to measure generalized expectancy of task success. Three groups of university students completed the ESC and a variety of other measures. People with high ESC scores report stronger expectations of performing well in a university course if they apply effort, are more internal in their locus of …
Sex role orientation and behavior in a work setting
Prosocial Organizational Behaviors
Occupational stress: Its causes and consequences for job performance.
This paper reports two studies of occupational stress and its relation with antecedent variables and job performance. The first study, in which 104 nurses participated in group discussions and 96 nurses completed a questionnaire, identified 45 stressful events for nurses. In the second study, 171 nurses who completed another questionnaire were also rated by a supervisor and/or a co-worker. Ratings of interpersonal aspects of job performance (such…
Evidence that task performance should be distinguished from contextual performance.
This study tests the merit of the distinction made by W. C. Borman and S. J. Motowidlo (1993) between task performance and contextual performance. Supervisors rated 421 U.S. Air Force mechanics on their task performance, contextual performance, and overall performance. Data on length of air force experience, ability, training performance, and personality were also available for many of these mechanics. Results showed that both task performance an…
Interpersonal facilitation and job dedication as separate facets of contextual performance.
This study attempts to refine the construct of contextual performance by dividing it into 2 narrower constructs, interpersonal facilitation and job dedication. Supervisors rated 975 U.S. Air Force mechanics on at least 1 of 4 aspects of job performance (different supervisors rated each aspect of performance), and 515 of these mechanics also completed self-report individual difference measures. Correlations between performance ratings and individu…
Task Performance and Contextual Performance: The Meaning for Personnel Selection Research
This article distinguishes between task and contextual activities, and a taxonomy of contextual performance containing elements of organizational citizenship behavior and prosocial organizational behavior is offered. Evidence is presented demonstrating that supervisors weight roughly equally subordinate task and contextual performance when making overall judgments of their performance. This, along with data showing that personality successfully p…
Job Performance
This chapter presents an overview of job performance as it is conceptualized in the industrial–organizational psychology literature. It includes a definition of job performance that emphasizes the behavioral, episodic, and aggregate nature of the construct. The chapter reviews and discusses several well-established multidimensional models of job performance, along with emerging theories of performance such as adaptive performance and trait activa…
Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Applied Psychology (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Job performance (4 works) · Job satisfaction (4 works) · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior (4 works) · Task (project management) (4 works) · Contextual performance (3 works)