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Essay heading: Locke's Goal Setting Theory
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He found that specific and difficult goals led to better task performance than vague or easy goals.
Telling someone to "Try hard" or "Do your best" is less effective than "Try to get more than 80% correct" or "Concentrate on beating your best time." Likewise, having a goal that's too easy is not a motivating force...
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Hard goals are more motivating than easy goals, because it's much more of an accomplishment to achieve something that you have to work for.
A few years after Locke published his article, another researcher, Dr Gary Latham, studied the effect of goal setting in the workplace. His results supported exactly what Locke had found, and the inseparable link between goal setting and workplace performance was formed...
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