The Effect of Failure on Subsequent Group Performance in a Professional Sports Performance

The Effect of Failure on Subsequent Group Performance in a Professional Sports Performance

Introduction

Performance of a team differ based on the past performance and occurrence of game losses. It is also essential to determine the impact of opponent difficulty level with respect to impact on the team performance in future focal games. Reisel and Kopleman examined the impact of several independent variables (including size of the loss and difficulty of the opposition) on several dependent variables (scores). However, this research paper replicates the study concept of Reisel and Kopleman with modified analysis of selective variables as highlighted in the research questions below.

Reisel and Kopelam (1995), in the article “The Effect of Failure on Subsequent Group Performance in a Professional Sports Performance” have mentioned different theories that are related to the work teams that are mainly based on the assumptions that teams will be successful. Performance is understood to be the forward-looking, strategic role of the board; however, the board does not always perform this function effectively. In this article the authors have implied a strong inferential mehtodology that has examined the data of all National Leagues games in the U.S. for three seasons. Futher it has been mentioned that subsequent performance significantly worsened for the teams that have suffered large loses.

Research Question

Two research questions have been explored in this assignment. These are as follows:

How do sporting teams perform after large and very large losses?

How do sporting teams perform when playing against a difficult opponent after a large loss?

Research Hypotheses

Hypothesis 1A: Team performance improves greatly in subsequent event after facing a larger initial loss

Hypothesis 1B: Team performance shows a great decrement in subsequent event after facing a larger initial loss

Hypothesis 2A: Team performance improves greatly in subsequent event after facing a larger initial loss when competing with low or medium level competitors

Hypothesis 2B: Team performance shows a notable decrement in subsequent event after facing a larger initial loss when competing with high level difficulty competitors

While there is a substantial body of knowledge about strategy and the strategic management of organizations, there are recognized gaps in our understanding of board involvement in strategy (Baltes & Skinner, 1999). The authors in the above mentioned article have discussed that there is no research focusing on the mentioned topic, there is little research that considers the emergent nature of strategy, as per Mintzberg's studies compared to strategy as the result of formal planning, as asserted by (Reisel and Kopelam, 1995). There are several different theories that relates to the performance management of working teams like Learned Helplessness Theory (LHT); Reactance Theory (RT); and Egotism Theory (ET). The LHT is a term for a condition in which an individual or animal has experienced a behavior closer to the despair, renunciation and depression. This theory was finally revised and supplemented by Abramson and Alloy Metalsky in 1989 under the term "theory of hopelessness or despair".

Reisel and Kopelam (1995) in the article “the effect of failure on subsequent ...