¿Qué determina el desempeño en la toma de decisiones de hombres y mujeres?

  1. Arenas Moreno, Alicia
  2. Tabernero Urbieta, María del Carmen
  3. Briones Pérez, Elena
Revista:
Revista de psicología del trabajo y de las organizaciones = Journal of work and organizational psychology

ISSN: 1576-5962

Ano de publicación: 2011

Volume: 27

Número: 1

Páxinas: 55-66

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.5093/TR2011V27N1A6 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso aberto editor

Outras publicacións en: Revista de psicología del trabajo y de las organizaciones = Journal of work and organizational psychology

Resumo

This study attempts to analyse the effect of gender on performance in a complex decision- making task. Performance in achievement tasks is linked to self-regulatory processes such as self-efficacy, self-set goals, and task commitment, determined by dispositional factors such as goal orientation or, as recently discovered, error orientation. Specifically, we try to compare self-regulation processes and dispositional factors of male and female university students in a complex task that simulates innovation and change implementation in a fictitious organization. Results show that women display a clear tendency to communicate errors and they are less worried about proving their own competence in front of others. Women, however, feel less able to cope with difficulties, are more distressed, and choose easier goals for their performance, which leads them ultimately to achieve worse performance.

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