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Effects of goal level on performance: a trade-off of quantity and quality.
Janet Beavin Bavelas,Eric S. Lee +1 more
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This article is published in Canadian Journal of Psychology\/revue Canadienne De Psychologie.The article was published on 1978-12-01. It has received 75 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Quality (business).read more
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Goal setting and task performance: 1969–1980.
TL;DR: A review of both laboratory and field studies on the effect of setting goals when learning or performing a task found that specific, challenging goals led more often to higher performance than easy goals, 'do your best' goals or no goals as discussed by the authors.
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Goal constructs in psychology: Structure, process, and content.
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Self-regulation through goal setting
Gary P. Latham,Edwin A. Locke +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a review of the literature on goal setting through 1990 has been reviewed and integrated by Locke and Latham (1990a), with special emphasis on its practical implications for the motivation of employees in organizational settings.
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Personality, motivation, and performance: A theory of the relationship between individual differences and information processing.
TL;DR: A general information-processing model is proposed that accounts for the systematic effects of these motivational states on certain task components (sustained information transfer and some aspect of short-term memory) and derive testable predictions that differentiate alternative motivational hypotheses.
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Effects of coaction, expected evaluation, and goal setting on creativity and productivity
TL;DR: This article examined effects of three factors on individual creativity and productivity: social and contextual factors have been theorized to significantly influence creative performance, including co-occurrence, co-adaptivity, and co-dependency.
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Toward a theory of task motivation and incentives
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarized and integrated research concerned with a long-neglected topic in psychology: the relationship between conscious goals and intentions and task performance, and concluded that any adequate theory of task motivation must take account of the individual's conscious intentions and intentions.