Welsh, David T.; Ordóñez, Lisa D. - In: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 123 (2014) 2, pp. 79-89
Over 40years of research on the effects of goal setting has demonstrated that high goals can increase performance by motivating people, directing their attention to a target, and increasing their persistence (Locke & Latham, 2002). However, recent research has introduced a dark side of goal...