Goals, expectations and standards are of high importance in any organization. If an organization doesn’t have goals then, employees would not be result orientated. The outcomes will not be seen. They are often the elementary unit of success. As we saw in Pygmalion Effect, having expectations from others, believing in them and making it clear what is expected of them would indeed have a positive effect in them resulting in positive outcomes.
Standards are things used as a measure, norm or models in comparative evaluations.
Setting goals for one’s performance and coming up with ways to achieve these goals is generally an adaptive strategy and can help goal fulfilment (Gollwitzer, 1993). After the goals have been set, it should be clearly communicated with the employees along with what is expected of them and how they can work in order to achieve the goals that has been set.
In the organization that I am currently associated with, the goal is to create hundred problem solvers by the year 2025. Thus, all of the employees are expected to work in accordance with the goals that has been set. The goals should be continuously communicated to the employees. This can be done through different medium such as reinforcing it regularly in meetings, through print medium and regular monitoring if the standards to achieve the goal has been met or not. These could be establishing individual milestones for the employees.
Having a clear goal, effectively communicating the expectations gives a meaning to the employees work and guides them towards a clearer direction. If in my organization, we didn’t have a goal to invest in a 100 entrepreneurs within a definitive time limit, our actions would not be energetic. It would make no sense if we perform the activities or not. This would lead to lack of inspiration, and our performance would not be effective. However, with the setting of goals and standards, we are committed to achieve certain targets for the year or even over achieve it. And when these targets are achieved, there is a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment amongst us.
It is essential for leaders to have the quality to influence others. Leaders have tremendous opportunity to expand dignity, respect, value, and legitimately induce positive change in the organization (S.al-Baradie, 2014). Encouraging the heart challenges leaders to pay attention, recognize individuals in a personal level, provide stories of success and values, be a role model for the employees and celebrate small victories (S.al-Baradie, 2014).
The goals’ reflect one’s purpose in the organization and refers to quantity, quality or rate of performance. While inspiring people to exert efforts necessary to meet the demands and persist over time, goals can also direct the individuals’ attention to relevant task features, appropriate behaviors to be performed and affect how people process information (Cho, 2007). The leaders should celebrate victories when the employees achieve the milestones that lead to achievement of the larger organizational goal. This could be as simple as a pat on the back or a thank you card.
In my organization, we sit for multiple but small meetings regularly and discuss our performance and how we can achieve that. The CEO appreciates us for our works regardless of how small they seem. He also invests his time in knowing about the employees and their interests and strengths so that we all work in the area we are comfortable with.
References
Cho, C. K. (2007). Motivation Goal setting and affects: Expectation and reality. 1-15.
Gollwitzer, P. M. (1993). Implementation Intensions: Strong Effect of Simple Plans. 493-503.
S.al-Baradie, R. (2014). International Journal of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. Encouraging the heart , 11-16.
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Goals, expectations and standards are of high importance in any organization. If an organization doesn’t have goals then, employees would not be result orientated. The outcomes will not be seen. They are often the elementary unit of success. As we saw in Pygmalion Effect, having expectations from others, believing in them and making it clear what is expected of them would indeed have a positive effect in them resulting in positive outcomes.
Standards are things used as a measure, norm or models in comparative evaluations.
Setting goals for one’s performance and coming up with ways to achieve these goals is generally an adaptive strategy and can help goal fulfilment (Gollwitzer, 1993). After the goals have been set, it should be clearly communicated with the employees along with what is expected of them and how they can work in order to achieve the goals that has been set.
In the organization that I am currently associated with, the goal is to create hundred problem solvers by the year 2025. Thus, all of the employees are expected to work in accordance with the goals that has been set. The goals should be continuously communicated to the employees. This can be done through different medium such as reinforcing it regularly in meetings, through print medium and regular monitoring if the standards to achieve the goal has been met or not. These could be establishing individual milestones for the employees.
Having a clear goal, effectively communicating the expectations gives a meaning to the employees work and guides them towards a clearer direction. If in my organization, we didn’t have a goal to invest in a 100 entrepreneurs within a definitive time limit, our actions would not be energetic. It would make no sense if we perform the activities or not. This would lead to lack of inspiration, and our performance would not be effective. However, with the setting of goals and standards, we are committed to achieve certain targets for the year or even over achieve it. And when these targets are achieved, there is a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment amongst us.
It is essential for leaders to have the quality to influence others. Leaders have tremendous opportunity to expand dignity, respect, value, and legitimately induce positive change in the organization (S.al-Baradie, 2014). Encouraging the heart challenges leaders to pay attention, recognize individuals in a personal level, provide stories of success and values, be a role model for the employees and celebrate small victories (S.al-Baradie, 2014).
The goals’ reflect one’s purpose in the organization and refers to quantity, quality or rate of performance. While inspiring people to exert efforts necessary to meet the demands and persist over time, goals can also direct the individuals’ attention to relevant task features, appropriate behaviors to be performed and affect how people process information (Cho, 2007). The leaders should celebrate victories when the employees achieve the milestones that lead to achievement of the larger organizational goal. This could be as simple as a pat on the back or a thank you card.
In my organization, we sit for multiple but small meetings regularly and discuss our performance and how we can achieve that. The CEO appreciates us for our works regardless of how small they seem. He also invests his time in knowing about the employees and their interests and strengths so that we all work in the area we are comfortable with.
References
Cho, C. K. (2007). Motivation Goal setting and affects: Expectation and reality. 1-15.
Gollwitzer, P. M. (1993). Implementation Intensions: Strong Effect of Simple Plans. 493-503.
S.al-Baradie, R. (2014). International Journal of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. Encouraging the heart , 11-16.