Motivating with Goal-Setting Theory
{"Image DocumentName": "Motivating with Goal-Setting Theory", "Image ImageDescription": "Assign specific, challenging goals. Make sure workers truly accept organizational goals. Provide frequent and specific performance- related feedback. Assign specific, challenging goals. One of the simplest, most effective ways to motivate workers is to give them specific, challenging goals. However, an amazing number of managers never do this with their employees. Make sure workers truly accept organizational goals. Specific, challenging goals won t motivate workers unless they really accept, understand, and agree to the organization s goals. For this to occur, people must see the goals as fair and reasonable. Plus, they must trust management and believe that managers are using goals to clarify what is expected from them rather than to exploit or threaten them ( If you don t achieve these goals\u2026 ). However, participative goal-setting, in which managers and employees generate goals together, can help increase trust and understanding and thus acceptance of goals. Provide frequent, specific performance-related feedback. In addition to accepting specific, challenging goals, goal-setting theory also specifies that employees should receive frequent performance-related feedback so they can track progress toward goal completion. Feedback leads to stronger motivation and effort in three ways. First, receiving specific performance feedback that indicates how well you re performing can encourage employees who don t have specific, challenging goals to actually set goals to improve their performance. Second, once people meet goals, performance feedback often encourages them to set higher, more difficult goals. Third, feedback lets people know whether they need to increase their efforts or change strategies in order to accomplish their goals. 5.2.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}