Building a Practically Useful Theory of Goal Setting and Task Motivation
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...…by the 26 BCTs include control theory (Carver & Scheier, 1998) and related goal theories (e.g., Austin & Vancouver, 1996; Gollwitzer, 1999; Locke & Latham, 2002), as well as operant conditioning (Skinner, 1974), theories of social comparison (e.g., Festinger, 1954), theoretical accounts…...
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...No other theory of motivation has deeper or broader empirical support at the individual, group, and unit level (Landy & Becker, 1987; Locke & Latham, 1990, 2002 )....
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...No other theory of motivation has deeper or broader empirical support at the individual, group, and unit level (Landy & Becker, 1987; Locke & Latham, 1990, 2002)....
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...Leaders can raise the self-efficacy of their subordinates (a) by ensuring adequate training to increase mastery that provides success experiences, (b) by role modeling or finding models with whom the person can identify, and (c) through persuasive communication that expresses confidence that the person can attain the goal (Bandura, 1997; White & Locke, 2000)....
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...As Bandura (1997) noted, people have the power to actively control their lives through purposeful thought; this includes the power to program and reprogram their subconscious, to choose their own goals, to pull out from the subconscious what is relevant to their purpose and to ignore what is not,…...
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...This within–between distinction is not an issue in social–cognitive theory (Bandura, 1986, 1997)....
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...It must be noted here that there is some doubt about the meaning of personality test scores (Bandura, 1986, 1997)....
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...…by ensuring adequate training to increase mastery that provides success experiences, (b) by role modeling or finding models with whom the person can identify, and (c) through persuasive communication that expresses confidence that the person can attain the goal (Bandura, 1997; White & Locke, 2000)....
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...The latter type of intention has been studied extensively by social psychologists, such as Fishbein and Ajzen (1975)....
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...Prospect theory (Kahneman & Tversky, 1979) emphasizes reference points, as does goal theory, but it does not incorporate the concept of aspiration level....
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