Recent research has demonstrated that the cognitive processes associated with goal pursuit can continue to interfere with unrelated tasks when a goal is unfulfilled. Drawing from the self-regulation and goal-striving literatures, the present study explored the impact of goal failure on subsequent cognitive and physical task performance. Furthermore, we examined if the autonomous or controlled m...

This longitudinal field study examined the influence of goal orientation on both negative emotional reactions to performance feedback and subsequent self-set goal level. After completing an initial performance event and receiving negative performance feedback, learning and proving goal orientations had nonsignificant relations with the intensity of negative emotional reactions to feedback. In c...

Merging multiple datasets collected from studies with identical or similar scientific objectives is often undertaken in practice to increase statistical power. This article concerns the development of an effective statistical method that enables to merge multiple longitudinal datasets subject to various heterogeneous characteristics, such as different follow-up schedules and study-specific miss...

Competencies are a part of human capital that businesses can use to human development and growth and thus intellectual capital. In modern enterprise, the evaluation of employees is considered as important basis for improving its operation. Performance evaluation is the most important activity of management of work perfor-mance and it is inconceivable without the measurement and evaluation of th...

The deregulation, or re-regulation, of the electricity markets, has lead to a search for methods to supervise the remaining monopolies of electricity distribution. In Sweden the Network Performance Assessment Model (NPAM) is being implemented, affecting primarily the local distribution utilities. For the NPAM and new regulation process several goals and objectives can be identified. In the pape...