Download or read book The Effects of Goal setting on Employee Effort Performance and Satisfaction as Moderated by Task Personality and Demographics written by Edward D. Cohen and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Developments in Goal Setting and Task Performance written by Edwin A. Locke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book concentrates on the last twenty years of research in the area of goal setting and performance at work. The editors and contributors believe goals affect action, and this volume has a lineup of international contributors who look at the recent theories and implications in this area for IO psychologists and human resource management academics and graduate students.
Download or read book A Theory of Goal Setting Task Performance written by Edwin A. Locke and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advanced Degrees Granted written by University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Graduate School and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Goal Setting Theory and its Application in Organizations written by Gabriel Socha and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2018 in the subject Psychology - Work, Business, Organisational and Economic Psychology, grade: 1,3, Leipzig Graduate School of Management, language: English, abstract: The objective of this essay is to explore if Goal-Setting Theory is a suitable concept to increase an employee’s performance in an organization. Goal-Setting Theory is a motivational theory developed by Locke and Latham in 1990 which states that correctly formulated goals optimize motivation and therefore increase performance. For the purpose of this essay, theoretical basics of Goal-Setting Theory and its application fields in organizations are provided. Furthermore, the strengths and weaknesses of the theory are discussed critically.
Download or read book Goal Concepts in Personality and Social Psychology written by Lawrence A. Pervin and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is behavior motivated? And if so, can it be motivated by the anticipation of future events? What role does cognition play in such motivational processes? And, further, what role does motivation play in ongoing cognitive activity? Questions such as these provide the foundation for this book, originally published in 1989. More specifically, the chapters in this book address the question of the utility of goals concepts in studying motivation and social cognition.
Download or read book Role of Assigned Team Goals in the Relationship Between Individual Difference Factors and Self set Goals in a Pre team Context written by Anupama Narayan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of individual difference factors, i.e., core self evaluations, cognitive ability, and task specific self-efficacy, on self-set goals and whether those effects were moderated by an assigned team goal in a pre-team context. It was hypothesized that the relationship between individual difference factors and self-set goals for potential team members would be differentially affected by the difficulty of the assigned team goal. I assessed these relationships for individual performance and individual satisfaction. In addition, I examined whether gender, task type, and team composition interacted in their effects on self-set goals. A total of 836 university students (404 males and 434 females) participated in this study. Team assigned goal (easy or difficult), team task type (quantitative or verbal) and team composition (all males, all females, and cross-balanced) were manipulated to create 12 experimental conditions. The task was to generate a high school level knowledge test by selecting, solving, and categorizing items from a predetermined test bank that was created for the purposes of this study. To accomplish this, participants set a goal for their projected contribution to the team after they were assigned the team goal. They worked individually and independently to prepare for the team task in a pre-team context. The study included measures of core self evaluations, cognitive ability, task specific self-efficacy, and self-set goals at the individual level. Results of this study provide initial evidence of the importance of accounting for variance at both the individual and team levels in self-set goals, individual performance and individual satisfaction. Further, the knowledge of an assigned team goal prior to team interaction does affect individual self-set goals, individual performance, and individual satisfaction. This study was an initial effort to understand the joint effects of dispositional and situational factors at the individual and team level on individual motivation and performance in a pre-team context. Future multilevel research is needed to explore other team level factors such as task type, team size, team structure, and team composition and other individual level factors such as conscientiousness and cognitive styles. Most importantly, research simultaneously examining individual and team level factors is required if we are to increase our understanding of the functioning of individuals in pre-team and within team contexts.
Download or read book Same Goal Different Day written by James F. Graham and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Goal theory has existed for many years. It has received wide study in academia and has become a large part of practitioner efforts to improve organizational performance. In all cases, goal setting has resulted in better organizational performance than its counter philosophy of "do your best". With the demands on organizations to compete globally and be competitive in an uncertain environment, it has never been more important for organizations to focus their efforts in the most effective way possible. Much research has been devoted to the many aspects of goal theory: self-set versus assigned, hard versus easy, group versus individual. One aspect that has not received much attention has been the effect of past experience on a group or individual's acceptance of the goal and repetitive goal usage. Given the prevalence of repetitive--daily, weekly, monthly, or annual goals--in the workplace, this issue is of critical importance. Using archival production records from a mid-west manufacturing firm, regression analysis was used to test hypotheses for effects of goal difficulty and past experience as well as their interaction on current performance. All models were found to be statistically significant, explaining up to 68% of the variance in current performance. As previously tested and supported in other research, difficult goals are positively associated with task performance. Contrary to previous testing, past experience was not a significant predictor of current performance. While the interaction of goal difficulty and past experience was statistically significant, the result was in a direction opposite to prediction, failing to support the initial hypothesis. These failures are attributed to statistical difficulties in the analysis arising from several factors encountered with the field study and the use of archival data. These included the measuring of goal difficulty, accounting for the use of repetitive goals prior to the period of this study's observation, and the potential effect of streamlined operations through lean manufacturing principles in combination with repetitive goal setting which possibly created a ceiling effect on impact of setting hard goals. These challenges and statistical results are discussed. Implications of the findings and directions for future research are presented."-- Abstract.
Download or read book Motivation at work Goal Setting written by Verena Stickler and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2007 in the subject Psychology - Work, Business, Organisation, grade: 1, London Metropolitan University, language: English, abstract: The following essay will discuss goal setting as a part of motivation at work. It will talk about the goal setting theory and will elaborate on what impact it has within an organization. This was partly achieved by interviewing the founder of a HR consultancy in London and seeing how goal setting is applied within this specific firm. This essay argues that goal setting can have both positive and negative effects on organizations.
Download or read book American Doctoral Dissertations written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disentangling the Effects of Goal Difficulty and Specificity written by Goran Kuljanin and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Experimental Study of the Effects of Goal Setting Evaluation Apprehension and Social Cues on Task Performance and Job Satisfaction written by Sammy Eugene White and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Goal Setting written by Edwin A. Locke and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1984 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Goal Setting for Individuals Groups and Organizations written by Edwin A. Locke and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of Goal Setting Via a Performance Measurement Objectives Matrix on Employees Perceptions of Job Characteristics Job Satisfaction Motivation and Growth Need Strength written by Darcy Michele Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Goal Setting Cognitive Ability and Task Strategy written by Jillian Shapiro and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
