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No surprises here. High evaluation threat makes chronic procrastinators put off their work. Read More
procrastination and certainty
Certainty
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
Certainty
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
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.
Ric www.orglearn.org
Applying this to the workplace
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
Thanks
Difficult part is settling in to do the "work" of reflecting on the situations (what are my resources, etc.) - procrastinating the work to do to avoid procrastinating...
Fascinating study, and the mechanics of how it was set up.
It's possible that the high
It's possible that the high and low evaluation items were not perceived that way by the students. To some, the prospect of having one's work printed and in publication linked to that person's name for an indefinite period of time might be worse than having to read it on a single occasion. Had the author evaluated how threatening the students found each of the situations would have shed light on this.
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