Drs. Edwin Locke and Gary Latham are credited with the creation of goal-setting theory and its implications for the workplace. In 1990, they published "A Theory of Goal Setting and Task Performance," ...

Dr. Edwin Locke found that there is a positive relationship between the difficulty of a goal and employees' performance. According to website Mind Tools, workers perform better with difficult goals ...

Do specific and difficult job goals have a positive, negative, or negligible effect on higher levels of performance in the form of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) among government employees?

When Caroline Adams Miller learned about the science of goal setting, her professional and personal life changed forever. It was 2005, and Adams Miller was a student at the University of Pennsylvania ...

Designing that kind of pause isn’t a delay. It’s a choice. And in a world where performance is measured in speed, it might ...

If you practice the tradition of making New Year’s resolutions, you know how frustrating it can be when that new, shiny motivation of the fresh year wears out a few weeks in. There are tons of advice, ...

For years, many companies have relied on antiquated goal-setting practices, and goal setting has been an annual affair that is retrospective and fails to provide real-time feedback. Inertia has ...

The effectiveness of goal setting has been proven for generations to deliver impressive results for organizations and individuals alike. As you’ll often find, successful entrepreneurs tend to rank ...

The purpose of this study is to explore the connection between two goal theories and to investigate how goals and the goal setting process can have an effect on academic achievement and linguistic and ...

It’s a given that you have been asked the following during a promotional interview: “Where do you see yourself in five years?” This common interview question is really not designed to evaluate your ...