TY - JOUR

T1 - A ‘Heart of Goal’ and the Will to Succeed

T2 - Goal Commitment and Task Performance among Teachers in Public Schools

AU - Pedersen, Mogens Jin

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - Much research suggests that employee goal commitment is predictive of work behaviour and performance. However, public administration research has yet to establish the linkage between goal commitment and task performance in the context of public service employees. Using survey data on school teachers with administrative data on students, this article employs within‐student between‐teachers fixed effects and shows how teachers' goal commitment affects their task performance. Moreover, the article shows how task difficulty moderates this relationship. The findings suggest that higher goal commitment promotes teacher task performance, in particular, at moderate to high levels of task difficulty

AB - Much research suggests that employee goal commitment is predictive of work behaviour and performance. However, public administration research has yet to establish the linkage between goal commitment and task performance in the context of public service employees. Using survey data on school teachers with administrative data on students, this article employs within‐student between‐teachers fixed effects and shows how teachers' goal commitment affects their task performance. Moreover, the article shows how task difficulty moderates this relationship. The findings suggest that higher goal commitment promotes teacher task performance, in particular, at moderate to high levels of task difficulty

U2 - 10.1111/padm.12201

DO - 10.1111/padm.12201

M3 - Journal article

VL - 94

SP - 75

EP - 88

JO - Public Administration

JF - Public Administration

SN - 0033-3298

IS - 1

ER -