ADAPTIVE SELF-REGULATION - A PROCESS VIEW OF MANAGERIAL EFFECTIVENESS

This article describes a set of processes involved in attaining manage rial effectiveness. These processes are components of an adaptive self -regulation framework. They involve the active management of constitue ncies' role expectations and performance opinions through standard-set ting, discrepancy-detection, and discrepancy-reduction. These processe s serve to enhance constituents' opinions of the manager's effectivene ss. Several social and contextual factors that either facilitate or in hibit managers' self-regulation efforts are identified and hypotheses to guide future empirical research are offered.