A Study On The Impact Of Target Setting On The Performance Of Employees At The Basic Level

Goal Setting Theory is an important management psychology theory on employee intense in the past half century has been sought after by numerous researchers and dig deep. The beginning of this century, China began experimental study on goal setting theory, mainly in the field of sports psychology and cognitive psychology, management direction current research is still relatively lack. It has the practical significance of how to use good "goal setting" as a management tool to achieve efficient management and achieve business goals for the business entity.For this paper is to explore the Goal Setting Theory on management by objectives, through the different levels of the independent variables of task difficulty, the difficulty of the target, the target resolution is set in a real work environment, single-blind experimentally observed under different objectives set by variable results of the work changes. In this study, the real situation experiments, experimental subjects for a formal education and training institutions to push the market a total of 48 team members, which are all part-time push, given a fixed salary hourly and unified late payment, the maximum salary excluded this additional variable incentive role in the implementation task. In this study, mixed design, wherein the inner set of variables is "difficult task" two levels: Easy Task / task difficult. There are two variables between groups were "difficult target" three levels: easy / moderate / difficult; two horizontal "objective clarity" : clear objectives / target blur. Therefore, the experimental treatment of 2 * 2 * 3, and it has 12 levels totally; under difficult task mode dependent variable is the number of parents leave the phone; thus obtained confirmed the conclusion goal setting theory section assumes:1. Task difficulty, the difficulty of the target, the target resolution for the three dependent variables significantly affect the results of the work that the main effect of the three significant; in the case of the control task difficulty, goals and objectives of the difficulty of clarity significantly affected the work result. Wherein the difference between the target internal difficulty comes mainly from the vulnerable- the difference between moderate and difficult- the difference between the medium and the easy- no significant difference between difficult; that is extremely difficult goals and objectives will be vulnerable to varying degrees reduce the results of the work.2. There is a difficulty between task difficulty and the target interaction; it is consistent with the experimental hypothesis, in the case of vulnerable target, the difference between task difficulty did not have a significant impact on the results, two dependent variables are low level; when the target is raised to medium level of difficulty, the difficulty of the task easier group’s performance was significantly higher than the difficulty of the task is more difficult group; difficulty when the target is set to be extremely difficult, the results of the two groups back to lower levels, and the performance of the task group is better than the easier task more difficult group;3. There is no definition between task difficulty and the target interaction; it does not match with the experimental hypothesis that no matter how difficult the task, the results of the work of the target group clearly better than the objective fuzzy group.4. There was an interaction between the target and the target difficulty clarity; in the case of clear objectives, targets three levels of difficulty of the difference between the very large, and when the target is set to blur, the target is between three difficulty levels the difference is shrinking, especially in difficult and vulnerable groups, due to variable values are very close.5. There is a significant interaction between task difficulty, the difficulty of the target, the target resolution of the three.