The main goal of our study is to analyze how success and failure in crucial situations affect subsequent individual … performance. Our study is based on evidence from a natural experiment of NBA (National Basketball Association) players: Based on … to their 4th quarter performance as well as compared to their game and season averages. Yet the average performances in …

We show that goal setting influences effort level, and that an appropriately set goal can enhance performance. We …-period framework, and demonstrate that the goal level set for period 1, together with success or failure, can affect the self …-confidence level in period two, which in turn influences period-two optimal goal, effort, and performance. The optimal choice of period …

performance of project organizations. Earlier studies did not recognize the manner by which individuals' perceptions of project … developed from the fundamental behaviour-to-performance-to-outcome (B-P-O) cycle in industrial/organizational psychology. It is … postulated that the valence of the first-level outcome (project success) is dependent on the instrumentality relating to the …