The Importance of Goal Setting: Why Every Pharmacist Should Make Goal Setting a Habit

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...

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...

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...

Ready for goal setting? Process evaluation of a patient-specific goal-setting method in physiotherapy

BACKGROUND Patient participation and goal setting appear to be difficult in daily physiotherapy practice, and practical methods are lacking. An existing patient-specific instrument, Patient-Specific Complaints (PSC), was therefore optimized into a new Patient Specific Goal-setting method (PSG). The aims of this study were to examine the feasibility of the PSG in daily physiotherapy practice, an...

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