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Dossett, Dennis L.; And Others – 1978
Goal-setting has been accepted as an effective motivational tool. Whether goals should be participatively set or assigned was examined by holding goal difficulty constant in an investigation based on previous results which suggested that participants in goal-setting set more difficult goals than those for whom goals are assigned. Results suggest…
Descriptors: Clerical Workers, Difficulty Level, Employer Employee Relationship, Job Performance
