Teams for performance

Performance of study project teams is an important issue to both educators and students. While much of the literature centres on the processes and outcomes of teamwork and team behaviours, more insight is needed into the factors contributing to the motivation of student teams to achieve high performance. This study integrates the concept of goal orientation and empirically examines the role of individual and climate goal orientations as influencing team goal orientation. Specifically, data from 51 student project teams in a simulated work setting are used to examine the three-dimensional goal orientation model for identifying dominant goals in the complex team situation where there are at least three levels of goals at play