Goal-setting ranks high on a supervisor's to-do list. Without goals, employees have no direction or purpose, so it is important for the supervisor to spell out the company's objectives clearly to his ...

Why do some employees do better than others? According to goal-setting theory, one reason is that they have better, clearer goals. These goals guide their behavior towards better workplace output.

In 2002, professors Edwin A. Locke and Gary P. Latham, two of the best known academic researchers on goal-setting, wrote an article in American Psychologist summarizing their 35 years of research.

Jeanne Ross, a researcher at MIT's Sloan School of Business, identifies a new method of achievement, learning and goal-setting for organizations. In her article, Why Hypotheses Beat Goals At Work, ...

From the time we are young, most of us have received the message that goal-setting is an important part of our personal development. There is a lot of truth to this idea. In my clinical practice, I ...