Best Practices and Industry Benchmarks
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High expectations can be a best practice for motivating employees to pursue excellence; however, the industry benchmarks may suggest otherwise. In this article, the authors studied employees in China to understand the relationship between expectations and performance.
It is generally believed that having high performance expectations is an effective means of motivating employees to pursue excellence and sustain the motivation driven by it, while ignoring the negative impact that hinders the incentive to sustain such expectations. Drawing on the conservation of resources theory, we constructed a moderated mediation model to examine the relationship between supervisor's high performance expectations and the employee's territoriality utilizing data from 291 supervisor–subordinate dyads from two companies in China. The results revealed that task autonomy moderated the indirect and positive effect of high performance expectations on employees' territoriality through stress, such that this indirect effect was stronger when employees were assigned to higher levels of task autonomy. The theoretical of these findings, as well as future research directions, are discussed.
Keywords:
high performance expectations; territoriality; stress; task autonomy
Source: Yi Li, Nana Li, Mengru Wu, and Man Zhang, https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/16/4397
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