Goal-Setting and Organizational Goals

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This essay maintains that goal-setting is an effective method for motivating employees to achieve organizational goals and demonstrates that the essence of the HR concept is the requirement to use an organization's human resources in the most effective and mutually beneficial manner possible; this requirement is most successfully achieved through the use of goal-setting. It also defines human resources, supports the use of goal-setting to accomplish organizational goals and motivate employees as the most important endeavors of the HR field, describes what skills and knowledge are required to effectively lead and manage an organization's human resources, as well as concluding the essay with a summary of the information discussed.

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"In 1978, E. E. Locke presented a now-classic paper, "The Ubiquity of the Technique of Goal Setting in Theories of and Approaches to Employee Motivation," and ever since there has been a growing interest in applying the goal-setting technique to solving organizational problems. Locke's view of an individual's conscious goals and intentions were that they were "the primary determinants of behavior." In other words, a universal characteristic of intentional behavior was that it "tends to keep going until it reaches completion." Thus, when a person starts something such as a new job or project, that person will keep striving toward completion until the goal is achieved."

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