The importance of goal setting on the job
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How does goal-setting affect employee motivation and performance? Cite source(s) to support your analysis. Provide an example to illustrate your point(s).
How can you ensure that the goal-setting is meaningful to the employee and not perceived as merely busy-work?
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Goal setting can affect employee motivation and performance in many ways if the goals are relevant to the company and realistic and achievable by the enployee. Employers must give their employees a clear direction when it comes to goal setting so that the objectives of top management are being accomplished. Goals are an important tool for managers since they have the ability to function as a self-regulatory mechanism that enables an employee a certain ...
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