Department of Psychology, University College London, UK.
Leadership Knowledge Center, Nova School of Business and Economics, Lisbon, Portugal.
Br J Soc Psychol. 2017 Sep;56(3):475-492. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12190. Epub 2017 Mar 6.
Three studies investigated the effects of power on the ability to pursue multiple, concomitant goals, also known as multitasking. It was predicted that powerless participants will show lower multitasking ability than control and powerful participants. Study 1 focused on self-reported ability to multitask in a sample of executives and subordinate employees. Studies 2 and 3 investigated the ability to dual-task and to switch between tasks, respectively, using dual-task and task-switching paradigms. Across the studies, powerless individuals were less able to effectively multitask compared with control and powerful participants, suggesting that the detrimental effects of lack of power extend beyond single-task environments, shown in past research, into multitasking environments. Underlying mechanisms are discussed.
三项研究调查了权力对追求多个同时进行的目标（即多任务处理）的能力的影响。研究人员预测，与对照组和有权组相比，无权组的参与者表现出的多任务处理能力较低。研究 1 关注的是对高管和下属员工样本中多任务处理能力的自我报告。研究 2 和 3 分别使用双重任务和任务转换范式调查了双重任务和任务转换的能力。在所有研究中，与对照组和有权组相比，无权者在有效地进行多任务处理方面的能力较差，这表明过去研究中显示的缺乏权力的不利影响不仅限于单一任务环境，还扩展到多任务环境中。讨论了潜在的机制。
