Setting goals around tasks, not outcomes, is the best way to improve performance, a study shows
Setting goals around tasks, not outcomes, is the best way to improve performance, a study shows
- August 8, 2017
- Study by Damon Clark, UCI economist, featured by Quartz, Aug. 8 2017
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The findings, from economics professors at the University of California at Irvine
... have been released in a working paper (pdf) by the National Bureau of Economic
Research .… Because the researchers didn’t directly test the two styles of goal setting
against the other, they can’t say with certainty that task goals are superior to performance
goals, but they do know they work, said UC Irvine’s Damon Clark, one of the study’s
authors.
For the full story, please visit https://qz.com/1042323/setting-goals-around-tasks-not-outcomes-is-the-best-way-to-improve-performance-a-study-shows/.
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