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Introduction
John Slocum currently works at the Guildhall, Southern Methodist University. John does research in Organizational Psychology. His current project involving focusing of team efficacy and how it affects performance of video game teams
Additional affiliations
June 1967 - June 1979
August 1975 - June 1976
August 1967 - June 1979
Education
September 1964 - June 1967
September 1962 - August 1964
June 1958 - June 1962
Wesminster College
Field of study
- Business
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Publications (253)
A longitudinal study of team trust and power distance as factors affecting the performance of video game teams. As team trust increased over time, team performance also increased.
The purpose of this study is to investigate how goal orientations and self-efficacy, as predictor variables, impact an individual player's performance in a First-Person Shooter (FPS) game. Online surveys were completed by 134 individuals who had played one of the pre-selected FPS games. A significant relationship between learning goal orientation (...
This empirical study focuses on examining factors of team performance on video game development teams with the intent of providing insight to project managers and leaders in the video game industry for improving the effectiveness of their cross-disciplinary teams. Researchers developed a model examining team performance as the dependent variable an...
This study investigated the effect of power distance and intra-team trust on team performance in video game development teams. Drawing on a data set of eleven student teams developing mobile video games, we found a significant positive relationship between intra-team trust and team performance. Additionally, the growth in the significance of this r...
This empirical study focuses on examining factors of team performance on video game development teams with the intent of providing insight to project managers and leaders in the video game industry for improving the effectiveness of their cross-disciplinary teams. Researchers developed a hypothetical model examining team performance as the dependen...
this is a longitudinal study of trust and team performance of video team performance. Trust had no relationship to performance until the third period and then trust was highly related to performance
This empirical study focuses on examining factors of team performance on video game development teams with the intent of providing insight to project managers and leaders in the video game industry for improving the effectiveness of their cross-disciplinary teams. Researchers developed a hypothetical model examining team performance as the dependen...
This study investigated esport fan behavior in the esports ecosystem, which includes teams, players and streaming platforms. Through a quantitative survey of Overwatch League fans (N = 493), the researchers measured fan loyalty and fan engagement at both the team and player level. Using correlation matrices and chi-square tests, the study showed th...
The goal of this study was to assess how team dynamics and team efficacy affected the performance of teams making video games over time. Surveys were administered to three software product development teams over six iterative development cycles. The study found a significant relationship between the team dynamics and team efficacy. Additionally, th...
this research argues that business strategy affects ones career stage
relationship between team efficacy, Google's team dynamics, and performance in designing video games was explored. The raters judged the performance of the teams over time. The correlation between team dynamics scale and team efficacy was r= .89(p.<001). Each construct was significantly related to team performance. As team performance decreased for...
this paper explores why do people watch esports, the fastest growing sport in the world. More than 335 million people watch esports
this paper coalesces knowledge from both literatures and presents a compelling argument why goal setting and goal orientation literatures can make a meaningful contribution to the practice of management
focus on how different human rersource management practices can retain high performing Chinese managers
A greater portion of the U.S. work force than ever before is of an age in which retirement and non-work related issues are of primary concern, rather than career advancement and enhancement. Does this trend represent a significant management and performance problem for sales managers? This study examines issues related to the attitudes and performa...
While scores of strategic management books have been written, many books fail to take into consideration the influences that shape and constrain managers' ability to formulate and execute well-thought out strategies. Demystifying Your Business Strategy acknowledges and harnesses those influences, providing practitioners with a helpful new approach...
The paper challenges the view that MNC dictates a subsidiary's business strategy and operations in accordance with the integration-responsiveness (IR) framework. The paper integrates the IR framework with contingency theory to argue that a subsidiary needs discretion to craft its own effective business strategy in light of the environmental exigenc...
This study extends our understanding of the effects of gender on both pricing behavior and owner income by examining both relationships in an experimental simulation involving owners of veterinary practices. Consistent with prior research, women owners are found to employ "compassionate pricing" more than men, even when the same services are offere...
The rate of technological change and the stage of the industry's life cycle are two important factors in any industry. How firms compete in their industry depends upon the business strategy they choose. Consolidators, Concept Drivers, Concept Learners and Pioneers are four strategic modes that enable firms to sustain their competitiveness. Each mod...
The paper examines the relationships among individual differences, cross-cultural adjustment, and expatriate assignment effectiveness, using a field survey of U.S.-based Korean expatriates. Overall, the findings are consistent with the literature and support previous findings. However, a unique and interesting pattern was found, revealing that how...
O ne of the greatest challenges facing leaders today is the need to develop new business models that accentuate ethical leadership, employee well-being, sustain-ability and social responsibility without sacrificing profitability, revenue growth, and other indicators of financial perfor-mance. This article seeks to address top man-agers' need to sim...
This research examines the effects of job insecurity on job satisfaction and organizational performance. Performance was measured with perceptual data. A total of 320 employees from various organizations participated in the research. The hypothesized model was tested by means of structural equation modeling. The findings show that job insecurity ha...
Professional service providers (e.g., doctors, lawyers, architects, management consultants, and veterinarians) can engage in dynamic pricing, that is, varying prices among customers. Yet, little is known about how professionals set prices for their services. With the increase in the proportion of women in many professions, it is important to unders...
In this article we introduce the concept of Mypthopoetic Leadership as a framework for leaders to develop robust cultures that give their firms competitive advantages. Strong cultures maximize employee engagement and are highly correlated with successful firms.Culture supports a social order that guides the experiences of employees. The mission sta...
It has been found in other occupations that there is a gender effect on the earning power of women: women earn less than men. Various studies have examined if there is a gender effect among professional service providers, but they have been empirically focused and generally lacking in theoretical foundation. As a result, very little progress has be...
This article discusses a study on the link between a firm's reward system and its culture. Seventy-five human resources managers from 14 companies in the U.S. were interviewed regarding their respective firm's managerial reward system. The research found that two forms of reward systems were most common, the hierarchy based-system and the performan...
Formulating an effective business strategy for a firm is a complex task. How best to compete in an industry is one of the major determinants that influence managers' choices of business strategy. The life cycle stages of the industry and the rate of technological change are two drivers that have significant impact on industry evolution. We develop...
This longitudinal field study examined the influence of goal orientation on both neg- ative emotional reactions to performance feedback and subsequent self-set goal level. After completing an initial performance event and receiving negative perfor- mance feedback, learning and proving goal orientations had nonsignificant relations with the intensit...
Introduction to special issue: New leadership for a new time. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
This textbook focusses on management competencies such as communication, planning and administration, decision making, strategic action, self management, global awareness and team work.
Discusses the new culture change at Pizza Hut in particular and at Yum! Brands,Inc. after the restaurants were spun off from PepsiCo Inc. The article holds the view that culture change does not occur in a vacuum. It is an integral part of the company's fabric. To change a company's culture, rewards systems, leader behaviors, and organizational desi...
The authors investigated the motivational effects of goal conflict in a complex goal performance setting. Goal conflict was found to have an indirect influence on performance through its relationship with goal commitment. Goal conflict was negatively associated with goal commitment when controlling for the other antecedents, including expectancy, s...
This longitudinal field study examined the influence of negative emotions and goal orientation after individuals received negative performance feedback about their level of goal attainment. After completing an initial performance event and receiving negative performance feedback, a learning goal orientation had a nonsignificant relationship with th...
The purpose of this paper is to highlight some of the reasons for failing CEOs. while these reasons are generic across most industries and countries, it is often difficult to accurately pinpoint the events that ultimately lead to a CEOs exit from a firm. Nevertheless, we were able to identify three common behaviors of failing CEOs that were widely...
This study examined the relationship of goal orientation and performance over a series of 2 challenging performance events. After providing performance feedback on the 1st event, the authors found that the relationship between a learning goal orientation and performance remained positive for the 2nd event, the relationship between a proving goal or...
This study examined the relationship of goal orientation and performance over a series of 2 challenging performance events. After providing performance feedback on the 1st event, the authors found that the relationship between a learning goal orientation and performance remained positive for the 2nd event, the relationship between a proving goal or...
The biennial AVMA Economic Report on Veterinarians and Veterinary Practices demonstrated that there was little real growth in veterinarians' incomes from 1985 to 1995, and they have not improved significantly since. Average income hovers just above $20 per hour worked, falling further and further behind incomes of other professionals, including som...
A s we approach the 21st century, corpora-tions can no longer assume that their previous business models and methods of organizing will build or sustain their sources of competitive advantage. Increasingly, com-panies are using designs such as continuous transformation, virtual teams, and cellular organizations to define how they will revamp their...
The authors investigated the influence of goal orientation on sales performance in a longitudinal field study with salespeople. As hypothesized, a learning goal orientation had a positive relationship with sales performance. This relationship was fully mediated by 3 self-regulation tactics: goal setting, effort, and planning. In contrast, a perform...
A managerial process is developed for assessing the efficiency of 552 individual stores for a multi-store, multi-market retailer employing Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Incorporating assurance regions into a DEA model allowed for a more complete specification of inputs and outcomes than usually found in DEA applications. This procedure permitted...