Wang Wenzhou, Wang Bin, Yang Ke, Yang Chong, Yuan Wenlong, Song Shanghao
Department of Human Resource Management, Business School, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
Department of Business Administration, Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
Front Psychol. 2018 Feb 6;9:86. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00086. eCollection 2018.
Facing a remarkably changing world, researchers have gradually shifted emphasis from successful experiences to failures. In the current study, we build a model to explore the relationship between project commitment and learning from failure, and test how emotion (i.e., perceived shame after failure) and cognition (i.e., attribution for failure) affect this process. After randomly selecting 400 firms from the list of high-tech firms reported by the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, we use a two-wave investigation of the employees, and the final sample consists of 140 teams from 58 companies in the technology industry in mainland China. The results provide evidence for the positive role of personal control attribution in the relationship between project commitment and learning from failure. However, in contrast to previous studies, perceived shame, as the negative emotion after failed events, could bring desirable outcomes during this process. Based on the results, we further expand a model to explain the behavioral responses after failure, and the implications of our findings for research and practice are discussed. - -Henry David Thoreau.
面对一个日新月异的世界，研究人员已逐渐将重点从成功经验转向失败。在本研究中，我们构建了一个模型来探究项目承诺与从失败中学习之间的关系，并测试情绪（即失败后的羞耻感）和认知（即对失败的归因）如何影响这一过程。从北京市科学技术委员会公布的高科技公司名单中随机选取400家公司后，我们对员工进行了两阶段调查，最终样本包括来自中国大陆58家科技行业公司的140个团队。研究结果证明了个人可控归因在项目承诺与从失败中学习的关系中所起的积极作用。然而，与以往研究不同的是，作为失败事件后的负面情绪，羞耻感在这一过程中却能带来理想的结果。基于这些结果，我们进一步扩展了一个模型来解释失败后的行为反应，并讨论了我们的研究结果对研究和实践的启示。——亨利·戴维·梭罗
