The application of Goal Setting Theory to goal setting interventions in sport: a systematic review

The Application of Goal Setting to Sports

Studies of goal setting both in organizations and the laboratory have found that (a) specific, difficult goals lead to better performance than vague or easy goals; (b) shortterm goals can facilitate the achievement of long-term goals; (c) goals affect performance by affecting effort, persistence, and direction of attention, and by motivating strategy development; (d) feedback regarding progress...

Goal Setting Transfer of Training Interventions

This study examines the effectiveness of two types of goals (distal outcome, proximal plus distal outcome) and being urged to ‘do your best’ as transfer of training interventions using a sample of government employees (n=58). Results revealed that participants who set distal outcome goals had the highest level of self-efficacy. Workplace performance, as assessed by peers, correlated with genera...

New Directions in Goal-Setting Theory

Goal-setting theory is summarized regarding the effectiveness of specific, difficult goals; the relationship of goals to affect; the mediators of goal effects; the relation of goals to self-efficacy; the moderators of goal effects; and the generality of goal effects across people, tasks, countries, time spans, experimental designs, goal sources (i.e., self-set, set jointly with others, or assig...

Application of goal programming for target setting in Iran's auto industry

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...