文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Is the bottom line reached? An exploration of supervisor bottom-line mentality, team performance avoidance goal orientation and team performance

作者：Lin, Yuying[1];Yang, Mengxi[2];Quade, Matthew J.[3];Chen, Wansi[4]

机构：[1]Tsinghua Univ, Sch Econ & Management, Beijing, Peoples R China;[2]Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Sch Econ & Management, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China;[3]Baylor Univ, Hankamer Sch Business, Management, Waco, TX 76798 USA;[4]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Business, Box 419,130 Meilong Rd, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China

年份：2022

卷号：75

期号：2

起止页码：349

外文期刊名：HUMAN RELATIONS

收录：;WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:000644988400001)】；

基金：The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Shanghai key soft science project [grant number 20692106700] and the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant number 71772102].

语种：英文

外文关键词：performing tension; social information processing theory; supervisor bottom-line mentality; team performance; team performance avoidance goal orientation

摘要：How do supervisors who treat the bottom line as more important than anything else influence team success? Drawing from social information processing theory, we explore how and when supervisor bottom-line mentality (i.e. an exclusive focus on bottom-line outcomes at the expense of other priorities) exerts influence on the bottom-line itself, in the form of team performance. We argue that a supervisor's bottom-line mentality provides significant social cues for the team that securing bottom-line objectives is of sole importance, which stimulates team performance avoidance goal orientation, and thus decreases team performance. Further, we argue performing tension (i.e. tension between contradictory needs, demands, and goals), serving as team members' mutual perception of the confusing environment, will strengthen the indirect negative relationship between supervisor bottom-line mentality and team performance through team performance avoidance goal orientation. We conduct a path analysis using data from 258 teams in a Chinese food-chain company, which provides support for our hypotheses. Overall, our findings suggest that supervisor's exclusive focus on the bottom-line can serve to impede team performance. Theoretical contributions and practical implications are discussed.