New Developments in Goal Setting and Task Performance

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Edwin A. Locke, Gary P. Latham
Routledge, Jan 3, 2013 - Business & Economics - 688 pages

This book concentrates on the last twenty years of research in the area of goal setting and performance at work. The editors and contributors believe goals affect action, and this volume has a lineup of international contributors who look at the recent theories and implications in this area for IO psychologists and human resource management academics and graduate students.

 

Contents

PART II Mediators and Moderators
33
PART III Special Goal Topics
115
PART IV LongTerm and Large Scale Goal Setting Programs and Studies
231
PART V Goals in Groups and at the Macro Level
285
PART VI Goal Setting in Specific Domains
329
PART VII Cross Cultural Issues in Goal Setting
507
PART VIII Goals and the Subconscious
521
PART IX Problems and Pitfalls
567
PART X The Goal Setting Questionnaire
581
PART XI Goal Setting and Self Development
601
PART XII Overview and Conclusions
621
Author Index
631
Subject Index
653
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Edwin A. Locke,Gary P. Latham
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Edwin A. Locke,Gary P. Latham
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About the author (2013)

Edwin A. Locke is Dean's Professor of Leadership and Motivation (Emeritus) at the R.H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his BA from Harvard in 1960 and his Ph.D. in Industrial Psychology from Cornell University in 1964

Gary P. Latham is the Secretary of State Professor of Organizational Effectiveness in the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto where he has cross appointments in Industrial Relations, School of Nursing and the Department of Psychology. His previous positions include staff psychologist at the American Pulpwood Association and the Weyerhaeuser Company and Ford Motor Professor in and Chair of the Management and Organization Department of the University of Washington.

Bibliographic information

TitleNew Developments in Goal Setting and Task Performance
EditorsEdwin A. Locke, Gary P. Latham
Editionillustrated
PublisherRoutledge, 2013
ISBN1136180958, 9781136180958
Length688 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Business & Economics / Human Resources & Personnel Management
Psychology / General
Psychology / Industrial & Organizational Psychology
Psychology / Movements / General
  
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