and good luck to me on writing a research report!
I have not a clue what crap i'm going to insert into this crapping piece of thing.
Have you heard them?
Goals that are difficult to achieve and specific tend to increase performance more than goals that are not. A goal can become more specific through quantification or enumeration (should be measurable), such as by demanding "increasing productivity by 50%"; or by defining certain tasks that need completing.
Setting goals affects outcomes in four ways: