New Developments in Goal Setting and Task Performance

This book concentrates on the last twenty years of research in the area of goal setting and performance at work. The editors and contributors believe goals affect action, and this volume has a lineup of international contributors who look at the recent theories and implications in this area for IO psychologists and human resource management academics and graduate students.

Introduction Edwin A. Locke and Gary P. Latham Part 1: The Basics 1. Goal Setting Theory, 1990 Edwin A. Locke and Gary P. Latham 2. The Economic Value of Goal Setting to Employers Frank L. Schmidt 3. Stretch goals: Risks, Possibilities and Best Practices Steve Kerr and Doug Lepelley Part 2: Mediators and Moderators 4. Attributions and Emotions as Mediators and/or Moderators in the Goal Striving Process Marion B. Eberly, Dong Liu, Terence R. Mitchell and Thomas W. Lee 5. Feedback, Goal Setting and Task Performance Revisited Susan J. Ashford and Kathleen E. M. DeStobbeleir 6. Goal Commitment Howard J. Klein, Joseph T. Cooper and Christina A. Monahan 7. Goals, Goal Orientations, Strategies and Performance Robert E. Wood, Jennifer Whelan, Victor Sojo and Moureen Wong Part 3: Special Goal Topics 8. Goals and Affect Stefanie A. Plemmons and Howard M. Weiss 9. Determinants of Goals Peter A. Heslin and Karyn L. Wang 10. The Role of Self Efficacy in Goal-Based Motivation Albert Bandura 11. Goals and Self-regulation: Emerging Perspectives across Levels and Time David V. Day and Kerrie L. Unsworth 12. Multiple Goal Pursuit Sun Shuhua and Michael Frese 13. Learning Goals: A Qualitative and Quantitative Review, Gerard H. Seijts Gary P. Latham and Meredith Woodwark 14. Goals and Self Efficacy as Mediators Peter Heslin and Dan C. Caprar Part 4: Long Term and Large Scale Goal Setting Programs and Studies 15. Long Term Effects of Goal Setting On Performance With The Productivity Measurement and Enhancement System (ProMES) Robert D. Pritchard, Brandon L. Young, Nick Koenig, Daniel Schmerling and Natalie Wright Dixon 16. The Predictive Validity of Conscious and Nonconscious Motives on Career Advancement Ann Howard 17. Goal Setting and Organizational Tra

Edwin A. Locke is Dean's Professor of Leadership and Motivation (Emeritus) at the R.H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his BA from Harvard in 1960 and his Ph.D. in Industrial Psychology from Cornell University in 1964

Gary P. Latham is the Secretary of State Professor of Organizational Effectiveness in the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto where he has cross appointments in Industrial Relations, School of Nursing and the Department of Psychology. His previous positions include staff psychologist at the American Pulpwood Association and the Weyerhaeuser Company and Ford Motor Professor in and Chair of the Management and Organization Department of the University of Washington.