Goal-Oriented Ethics: Framing the Goal-Setting Concretely

Goal Setting , Goal Striving , and Goal Attainment : Entrepreneurs ’ Motivation

from the proposal: “Although goal striving is important in people’s lives, little research has examined goal striving. In the motivation literature focus has been on goal setting and, to a much lesser degree, goal attainment. No published study has examined entrepreneurs’ goal striving, which constitutes the purpose of the study. A sample of entrepreneurs will provide the data for the study. Th...

Goal-Setting For Safety

Following the Piper Alpha disaster and the subsequent public enquiry, Lord Cullen recommended that the Health and Safety Executive shift its emphasis towards an 'auditing of systems' approach, rather than an 'inspection of sites' approach. Although primarily aimed at the offshore industry, the implications for all industries are that management will have to develop safety management systems tha...

Chapter 4 Goal Setting: The Goal/Question/Metric Paradigm

Goal-setting 1

The goal-setting theory of motivation is " the single most dominant theory in the field, with over a thousand articles and reviews published on the topic in over 35 years (Mitchell & Daniels, 2003, p.231). The theory proposes that goals are the immediate regulators of behavior and setting specific and difficult goals leads to higher performance levels than general " do your best " , or easy goa...

Evaluating goal models within the goal-oriented requirement language

In this paper, we introduce the application of rigorous analysis procedures to goal models in order to provide several benefits beyond the initial act of modelling. Such analysis can allow modellers to assess the satisfaction of goals, facilitate evaluation of high-level design alternatives, help analysts decide on the high-level requirements and design of the system, test the sanity of a model...