Exploring the Influence of Failure Aversion on Learning From Project Failure: A Sensemaking Perspective.
Exploring the Influence of Failure Aversion on Learning From Project Failure: A Sensemaking Perspective.
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DOI：
10.3389/fpsyg.2022.794390
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发表时间：
2022
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3.8
通讯作者：
Wang, Wenzhou
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作者：
Zhang, Liangting;Wang, Bin;Feng, Xiaoxia;Zhang, Yue;Wang, Wenzhou
虽然项目失败通常被认为是一种负面事件，但它可以为学习提供宝贵的资源。尽管在个人层面上对从项目失败中学习的前因进行了大量的研究，但个人对失败的态度是从失败中学习的一个相对近的前因，在组织研究中受到的关注有限。为了解决这一研究的不足，在当前的研究中，我们特别关注个人的失败厌恶，并探讨了它如何影响从失败中学习的过程中的争论和期望的基础上，意义建构理论。通过对774名中国研发团队员工的研究发现，个体的失败厌恶通过引发以损失为中心的应对方式，促进了他们从失败中学习，但失败厌恶通过增加个体的自尊损失感知，对从失败中学习产生负面影响。我们还发现，个人的学习目标取向（LGO）削弱了自尊的损失和从失败中学习之间的负向关系，但是，LGO并没有缓和我们假设的损失为中心的应对和从失败中学习之间的关系。我们的研究从两个方面扩展了从失败中学习的文献。首先，它探讨了从失败中学习的过程中，在个人层面上的意义建构理论的基础上，其次，它揭示了潜在的认知机制之间的失败厌恶和从项目失败中学习。
Although project failure is commonly considered a negative event, it can provide valuable resources for learning. Despite well documented research on the antecedents of learning from project failure at the individual level, individuals’ attitude toward failures, a relatively proximal antecedent of learning from failure, has attracted limited attention in organizational studies. To address this paucity of research, based on the sensemaking theory, in the current study we specifically focused on individuals’ failure aversion and explored how it would influence learning from failure through the process of arguing and expectation. Using a sample of 774 employees from R&D teams in China, our findings revealed that individuals’ failure aversion enhanced their learning from failure through inducing a loss-focused coping, but failure aversion negatively affected learning from failure through increasing the individuals’ perceived loss of self-esteem. We also found that individuals’ learning goal orientation (LGO) weakened the negative relationship between the loss of self-esteem and learning from failure; however, LGO did not moderate our hypothesized relationship between loss-focused coping and learning from failure. Our study extends the literature on learning from failure in two ways. First, it explores the learning from failure process at the individual level based on the sensemaking theory and second, it sheds light on the underlying cognitive mechanisms operating between failure aversion and learning from project failure.