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Performance goal orientation and personal disengagement : the influence of the persona and shadow
Thesis (MCom)--Stellenbosch University, 2025.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/132063 Performance goal orientation and personal disengagement : the influence of the persona and shadow Barnard, Brendon Van der Bank, Francois Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. Dept. of Industrial Psychology. Employee motivation -- Psychological aspects Organizational behavior -- Psychological aspects Work environment -- Psychological aspects Work environment -- Personality Career development Employees -- Coaching of UCTD Thesis (MCom)--Stellenbosch University, 2025. Barnard, B. 2025. Performance Goal Orientation and Personal Disengagement: The Influence of The Persona And Shadow. Unpublished masters thesis. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University [online]. Available: https://scholar.sun.ac.za/items/ee67ec00-13e9-405d-9d98-5784976ccde4 ENGLISH SUMMARY: This study investigates the role of performance goal orientation in driving how people see themselves in their work role, how individuals perceive authority figures in their workplace, and how this process ultimately leads to personal disengagement from work-role performance. To assess this premise, a cross-sectional correlational research design was adopted, undergraduate and honours-level students were sampled (N = 419) from one South African university, and structural equation modelling was applied to evaluate the proposed personal disengagement structural model. The structural model showed good fit with the data (RMSEA = .05; p > .39) but only three of the eight path-specific hypotheses were supported by the data. The results supported the expected positive effect of performance goal orientation on model employee persona identification, but did not support the expected positive effect of model employee persona identification on tyrant shadow projection, or the expected negative effect of model employee persona identification on psychological safety. On the other hand, results supported the expected negative effect of tyrant shadow projection on psychological safety, and the expected negative effect of psychological safety on personal disengagement. With the mixed results obtained in the original structural model, a modified model was fitted to the data with the exclusion of the model employee persona construct. The modified model showed good fit with the data (RMSEA = .04, p = .67). All the structural relationships in the modified model obtained statistical support, and four of the five relationships were in the direction expected. Performance goal orientation had a positive effect on personal disengagement via tyrant shadow projection and psychological safety. Contrary to expectations, a direct negative effect of performance goal orientation on personal disengagement was also observed. Results from the original and modified structural models suggest that performance goal orientation has both positive and negative effects on personal disengagement. Individuals who adopt performance goal orientation mindsets may be more prone to experience their authority figures as arbitrarily demanding and tyrannical, and may be less prone to experience psychological safety, ultimately leading to increased personal disengagement. The motive to demonstrate one’s competence underlying performance goal orientation may, however, reduce individuals’ tendencies to personally disengage from work role performance. It is recommended that organisations gauge their employees’ perceptions of their managers and supervisors and remedy negative perceptions by building trusting and supportive relationships and encouraging learning and mastery in the workplace. This study, therefore, contributes to industrial psychology theory and practice by providing insight into the antecedents of personal disengagement, with implications for decreasing personal disengagement in the workplace. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie ondersoek die rol van prestasie-doelorientasie in hoe individue hulself in hul werk-rol sien, hoe individue gesagsfigure in hul werksplek beskou, en hoe hierdie proses uiteindelik lei tot persoonlike onttrekking van werk-rol uitvoering. ‘n Dwarssnit-korrelasionele navorsingsontwerp is aangeneem, en ‘n steekproef van voorgraadse- en honneursvlak studente (N = 419) van een Suid-Afrikaanse universiteit is geneem en strukturele vergelykingsmodellering is gebruik om die voorgestelde persoonlike onttrekking strukturele model te evalueer. Die strukturele model het goeie passing met die data getoon (RMSEA = .05; p > .39), maar slegs drie van die agt pad-spesifieke hipoteses is deur die data ondersteun. Die resultate het die verwagte positiewe effek van prestasie-doelorientasie op model werknemer persona identifikasie ondersteun, maar nie die verwagte positiewe effek van model werknemer persona identifikasie op tiran skadu projeksie, of die verwagte negatiewe effek van model werknemer persona identifikasie op psigologiese veiligheid nie. Die resultate het wel die verwagte negatiewe effek van tiran skadu projeksie op psigologiese veiligheid en die verwagte negatiewe effek van psigologiese veiligheid op persoonlike onttrekking ondersteun. Gegewe die gemengde resultate wat in die oorspronklike strukturele model verkry is, is 'n aangepaste model op die data toegepas, met die uitsluiting van die model werknemer persona konstruk. Die aangepaste model het goeie passing met die data getoon (RMSEA = .04; p = .67). Al die strukturele verwantskappe in die aangepaste model het statistiese ondersteuning verkry, en vier van die vyf verwantskappe was in die verwagte rigting. Prestasie-doelorientasie het 'n positiewe effek op persoonlike onttrekking gehad via tiran skadu projeksie en psigologiese veiligheid. In teenstelling met verwagtinge is daar ook 'n direkte negatiewe effek van prestasie-doelorientasie op persoonlike onttrekking waargeneem. Die oorspronklike en aangepaste strukturele modelle se resultate dui daarop dat prestasie-doelorientasie beide positiewe en negatiewe effekte op persoonlike onttrekking het. Individue wat prestasie-doelorientasie sienswyses aanneem, sal waarskynlik meer geneig wees om hul gesagsfigure as arbitrer en tirannies te ervaar, en mag minder geneig wees om psigologiese veiligheid te ervaar, wat uiteindelik lei na verhoogde persoonlike onttrekking. Die motief om een se bekwaamheid te demonstreer, wat ten grondslag le aan prestasie-doelorientasie, kan egter individue minder geneig maak om hulself persoonlik van werk-rol uitvoering te onttrek. Dit word aanbeveel dat organisasies hul werknemers se persepsies van hul bestuurders evalueer en negatiewe persepsies regstel deur vertrouens- en ondersteunende verhoudings te bou, en deur bemeestering in die werkplek aan te moedig. Hierdie studie dra dus by tot bedryfsielkunde teorie en -praktyk deur insig te bied in die antesedente veranderlikes van persoonlike onttrekking, met implikasies vir die vermindering van persoonlike onttrekking in die werkplek. Masters 2025-05-22T06:25:16Z 2025-05-22T06:25:16Z 2025-03 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/132063 Stellenbosch University viii, 108 pages : illustrations, includes annexures application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Employee motivation -- Psychological aspects Organizational behavior -- Psychological aspects Work environment -- Psychological aspects Work environment -- Personality Career development Employees -- Coaching of UCTD Barnard, Brendon Performance goal orientation and personal disengagement : the influence of the persona and shadow |
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| topic | Employee motivation -- Psychological aspects Organizational behavior -- Psychological aspects Work environment -- Psychological aspects Work environment -- Personality Career development Employees -- Coaching of UCTD |
| url | https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/132063 |
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