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Role Schemata and Member Motivation in Task Groups

Kerr, Norbert L., Stanfel, J. A. (1993) Role Schemata and Member Motivation in Task Groups. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 19 (4). pp. 432-442. ISSN 0146-1672. (doi:10.1177/0146167293194008) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:42521)

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Abstract

It was conjectured that occupying the minimal leader role (i.e., having the title of group leader without having any of the attendant legitimacy, power, authority, or formal responsibility) might trigger a leader role schema that prescribes greater responsibility for group performance. In an experimental study, the effects of occupying such a minimal leader role and its complementary, minimal nonleader role on three distinct group motivation losses were explored. Occupying the minimal leader role did not, as conjectured, attenuate these motivation losses. However occupying the minimal nonleader role did affect task motivation. The clearest such effect was an accentuation of the typical social loafing effect by subjects when someone else in the group had been selected as a group leader.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1177/0146167293194008
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology
Depositing User: M.L. Barnoux
Date Deposited: 21 Aug 2014 09:54 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:16 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/42521 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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