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Record W4402685174 · doi:10.1002/9781394320769.ch5

Motivate Employee Performance Through Goal Setting

2023· other· en· W4402685174 on OpenAlexaff
Gary P. Latham

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typeother
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicMotivation and Self-Concept in Sports
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGoal settingProcess managementGoal orientationBusinessComputer scienceKnowledge managementPsychologySocial psychology

Abstract

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Goal setting theory provides a framework that specifies the most valid and practical ways of increasing employee motivation. The theory states that the simplest most direct motivational explanation of why some people perform better than others is because they have different performance goal. Goal specificity facilitates an employee's focus in that it makes explicit what it is the individual should choose to do or try to accomplish. Commitment is the sine qua non of goal setting. Without it, goal setting is a meaningless exercise. Among the biggest impediments to goal setting is environmental uncertainty. This is because the information required to set learning or outcome goals may be unavailable. Some behavioral ethics researchers, on the basis of laboratory experiments involving college students, claim that setting a specific, high performance goal leads to unethical behavior as defined by an exaggeration of how well they performed the task.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.014

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.001
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.029
GPT teacher head0.308
Teacher spread0.279 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2023
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