A dynamic computational model of employees goal transformation: Using self-determination theory |
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Authors: | Zhang Ying Zhang Jian Forest Jacques Chen Zhihua |
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Affiliation: | 1.Donlinks School of Economics and Management, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China ;2.Department of Organization and Human Resource Management, School of Management Sciences, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada ;3.School of Humanities and Economic Management, China University of Geosciences Beijing, Beijing, China ; |
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Abstract: | Following self-determination theory, this paper investigates the relations of employees’ perceptions of supervisors’ autonomy-supportive or controlling environments to their intrinsic or extrinsic work goals using both a field study and a computational dynamics model (Vancouver and Weinhardt in Org Res Methods 15(4):602–623, 2012), which is a recent and innovative technique. In Study 1, we did an empirical study with 128 employees over a half-year period and found that employees’ perceptions of supervisors’ autonomy-supportive environments satisfied employees’ basic psychological needs and promoted their intrinsic goals; controlling environments frustrated their basic needs and promoted their extrinsic goals. In Study 2, we used a system dynamics model to simulate the change in employees’ extrinsic goals, and the results showed that perceptions of supervisors’ autonomy-supportive environments related to the transformation of employees’ extrinsic goals. The study contributes by demonstrating that employees’ perception of supervisors’ environments could be a reason for employees’ different goal orientations, and it contributes by simulating the use of the dynamic process of goal transformation in research. |
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