Conventional wisdom says continuing to challenge your employees over time with difficult assignments and stretch goals is vital to keeping their engagement high. But what challenges are the right challenges?
Researchers explore the role of goal orientation and performance when employees are under time pressure.
Researchers discover a link between the types of goals that employees set and their propensity to experience workplace stress and burnout.
Researchers provide a clear definition of ambition and demonstrate how it may lead to workplace success and overall productivity.
Researchers demonstrate that, in addition to individuals, groups can also benefit from specific and hard to reach goals.
Researchers discuss different ways that employees pursue goals, and explain how organizations can use this information to their advantage.
Researchers explore whether organizations can succeed by using stretch goals, meaning goals that are difficult to obtain.
Research demonstrates which self-regulated learning strategies work toward helping people achieve their learning goals.
Researchers find that psychological collectivism can be effective for work team productivity, but only in a certain situation.
Topic: Goals, Performance, Teams
Publication: Human Performance
Article: What you do for your team comes back to you: A cross-level investigation of individual goal specification, team-goal clarity, and individual performance
Authors: S. Sonnentag and J. Volmer
Reviewed By: Benjamin Granger
