Personal Competition Among Sports Players and Their Performance as a Team: A Moderated Mediation Model

Abstract

Personal competition among colleagues and co-workers has been observed in order to prove their professional superiority over others. Such behaviors have grave consequences on the overall team performance. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of personal competition on team performance incorporating the mediating role of the playing dumb behavior of knowledge hiding. The study has further checked the moderating effect of task interdependence on the relationship between personal competition and playing dumb. Data for the present study had been collected through questionnaires from the sports players actively associated with games through their educational institutes in China. The sample size of the study was 339, selected on the basis of convenience sampling. Smart PLS had been employed to analyze the data through structural equation modeling (SEM). The results of the study showed a strong impact of personal competition on team performance and the playing dumb variable. Furthermore, playing dumb has been found to have a strong mediating impact on team performance. The study has theoretically contributed to the literature of competition and performance by investigating the mediating role of playing dumb. The study also offers certain practical implications to the managers of the corporate world to devise such human resource policies that take appraisals from the colleagues so as to rectify the negative workplace behaviors and could be worked out accordingly.

Factors that influence athlete transfers on competitive sports: A case study and policy analysis from special region of Yogyakarta

“…The government and sports organizations need to work together to ensure that athlete transfers are carried out fairly and transparently, and the welfare of athletes is prioritized. Under Article 63 of Organizing Sports: The transfer of athletes, as referred to in Article 58 paragraph (1), mandates that the associations/clubs of the athlete's destination provide compensation to the association/club from which the athlete originates, in accordance with the provisions of the primary sports branch organization. Moreover, the procedure for transferring athletes is unclear.…”

“…Competition in sports is a forum that provides opportunities for individuals and sports teams to measure their sporting abilities. In other words, competition serves as a venue to gauge one's talent in relation to others and oneself [1]. Meanwhile, competitive sports can be defined as sports, whether individual or teambased, which necessitate systematic training to compete against others.…”