Organizational Choice: A Study of Pre- and Postdecision Processes.
In: Organizational Behavior & Human Performance, Jg. 1 (1966-12-01), Heft 2, S. 212-225
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The subjects in this investigation were graduate students in a school of industrial management who were nearing the completion of their program of training and were engaged in the process of selecting an organization in which to begin their managerial career. After "surveying the market" but before making their choices, subjects rated the attractiveness of each of three organizations from which they expected to make their choices and completed a questionnaire designed to measure their conceptions of the instrumentality of each of these organizations for the attainment of their goals. Identical measures were obtained after the choice had been made. A strong positive relationship was observed, both before and after choice, between the attractiveness of organizations and the subjects' conceptions of the instrumentality of organizational membership for goal attainment. The mean attractiveness of chosen organizations increased from before to after choice as did the subjects' conceptions of their instrumentality for goal attainment. On the other hand, both the attractiveness and cognized instrumentality of unchosen organizations decreased. The findings are generally in accord with predictions made from Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Organizational Choice: A Study of Pre- and Postdecision Processes.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Vroom, Victor H. |
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Zeitschrift: | Organizational Behavior & Human Performance, Jg. 1 (1966-12-01), Heft 2, S. 212-225 |
Veröffentlichung: | 1966 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 0030-5073 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1016/0030-5073(66)90013-4 |
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