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Studies of the relationship between satisfaction, goal-setting, and performance
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In this paper, it was argued that being dissatisfied with one's past performance generates the desire (and goal) to change one's performance, whereas satisfaction with a previous performance produces the desire to repeat or maintain one's previous performance level.About:
This article is published in Organizational Behavior and Human Performance.The article was published on 1970-03-01. It has received 220 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Goal setting.read more
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Self-efficacy mechanism in human agency
TL;DR: The centrality of the self-efficacy mechanism in human agency is discussed in this paper, where the influential role of perceived collective effi- cacy in social change is analyzed, as are the social con- ditions conducive to development of collective inefficacy.
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Social Cognitive Theory of Organizational Management
Robert E. Wood,Albert Bandura +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze organizational functioning from the perspective of social cognitive theory, which explains psychosocial functioning in terms of triadic reciprocal causation, and apply it in a series of experiments of complex managerial decision-making.
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Cultivating competence, self-efficacy, and intrinsic interest through proximal self-motivation.
Albert Bandura,Dale H. Schunk +1 more
TL;DR: For example, this paper found that children who exhibited gross deficits and disinterest in mathematical tasks pursued a program of self-directed learning under conditions involving either proximal subgoals, distal goals, or no goals.
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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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Negative self-efficacy and goal effects revisited.
Albert Bandura,Edwin A. Locke +1 more
TL;DR: Converging evidence from diverse methodological and analytic strategies verifies that perceived self-efficacy and personal goals enhance motivation and performance attainments.
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Work and motivation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors integrate the work of hundreds of researchers in individual workplace behavior to explain choice of work, job satisfaction, and job performance, including motivation, goal incentive, and attitude.
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Plans and the Structure of Behavior
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An introduction to motivation
TL;DR: Comparing targeted patching algorithms against a benchmark uniformly random patching strategy and proposing a new containment strategy by partitioning mobiles appropriately based on their social relationship graph are compared.
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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.