Your small business must achieve the goals you set so it can succeed. However, you must achieve those goals by motivating others in your organization. The threat of punishment has long been ...

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.

Goal setting theory was developed in the 1960s. It assumes that having management set specific and clear objectives and then provide feedback to employees provides motivation to those employees to ...

Once or twice a year, there's a deliverable that presents a challenge to both managers and their employees: performance reviews. While many companies conduct annual reviews, some are adopting a more ...

If you practice the tradition of making New Year’s resolutions, you know how frustrating it can be when that new, shiny motivation of the fresh year wears out a few weeks in. There are tons of advice, ...

Ever since the 1960s, when Edwin Locke, an American psychologist, introduced the theory that goal setting can motivate employees and lead to better workplace performance, organizations have made ...

The effectiveness of goal setting has been proven for generations to deliver impressive results for organizations and individuals alike. As you’ll often find, successful entrepreneurs tend to rank ...

The gender and ethnicity gap in academic achievement constitutes one of today’s key social problems. The current study, therefore, assessed the effects of a brief, evidence-based online intervention ...