MGCR 222 Study Guide - Final Guide: Diminishing Returns, Jujutsu, Group Cohesiveness

• School: McGill University
• Department: Management Core
• Course: MGCR 222
• Professor: Patricia Hewlin

Document Summary

Goals tell an employee what needs to be done and how much effort will need to be expended. Specific goals increase performance; difficult goals result in higher performance than do easy goals, and that feedback leads to higher performance than does nonfeedback. Challenging goals get our attention and thus tend to help us focus. Difficult goals energize us because we have to work harder to attain them. When goals are difficult, people persist in trying to attain them. Difficult goals lead us to discover strategies that help us perform the job or task more effectively. Assume an individual is committed to the goal and is determined not to lower or abandon it. In terms of behaviour, the individual believes he or she can achieve the goal, and wants to achieve it. Management by objectives emphasizes participatively set goals that are tangible, verifiable, and measurable. Goal specificity, participation in decision making, an explicit time period, and performance feedback.