No surprises here. High evaluation threat makes chronic procrastinators put off their work. The surprise in a recent study was that low threat conditions for people low in chronic procrastination resulted in delay as well. And, get this, the high procrastinators delayed the least if the evaluation threat was low.
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Certainty
Submitted by Timothy A Pychyl on May 8, 2008 - 3:23pm.
It's always good practice to let everyone know clearly how they will be evaluated. This also allows autonomy as you note with choice about what you will submit and what you may not. I will come back to the issue of autonomy in the context of self-determination theory in my blogs.
Thanks for your thoughts on this.
tim
What "High Threat Avoidance" May Mean Managers
Submitted by Richard Townsend on May 8, 2008 - 2:01am.
I am currently dealing with a manger who has difficulty getting staff to complete delegated tasks on time. This manager is considered as "tough and demanding" by some. Not only is timeliness a problem, poor quality output by the relatively lowly skilled staff often leads to criticism of their efforts. Perhaps the research is also valuable for mangers dealing with deadline performance problems and as with this manager they need to see how they may be part of the delay problem, rather than they should be... being a part of the solution. An interesting article thank you very much.
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Applying this to the workplace
Submitted by Timothy A Pychyl on May 8, 2008 - 3:21pm.
I agree completely. The research was done in an academic context, but the principles may well apply in the workplace in terms of evaluation threat and punctual performance. Thanks for this.
tim
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In my experience teaching(showing), I let the students know the quantity of points to obtain for each tasks, test and exercise in team. In this way that cad wise the one who all the points of them final qualification was costing every activity, even I met kind giving them opportunity to extract 110 points in a scale of 100, the only condition was that every work must be delivery the indicated day of delivery ... the pupils who regularly were not delivering tasks, did it without doubting for dread of not extracting a good qualification ultimately ... this way I reduced the threat of the evaluation in the delivery of works and they all were taking part