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Goal Difficulty Selection

Goal Difficulty Selection is a construct in goal-setting theory that refers to the process by which individuals or systems determine the level of challenge inherent in a specific objective, distinguishing it from related goal attributes by focusing exclusively on the perceived or actual magnitude of effort, skill, or resources required to achieve the goal.

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Self-Efficacy: Implications for Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Marilyn E. Gist · Academy of Management Review · 1987 · 1.3K citations

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Self-Efficacy: Implications for Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Marilyn E. Gist · Academy of Management Review · 1987 · 508 citations

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Transformational leadership, goal difficulty, and job design: independent and interactive effects on employee outcomes

J. Lee Whittington, Vicki L. Goodwin, Brian Murray · The Leadership Quarterly · 2004 · 204 citations

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Effects of assigned versus participatively set goals, knowledge of results, and individual differences on employee behavior when goal difficulty is held constant.

Dennis L. Dossett, Gary P. Latham, Terence R. Mitchell · Journal of Applied Psychology · 1979 · 151 citations

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Drinking goal selection in behavioral self-management treatment of chronic alcoholics

David C. Hodgins, Gillian Leigh, R M Milne et al. · Addictive Behaviors · 1997 · 106 citations

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Authors

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  1. GP
    Gary P. Latham

    University of Toronto, Canada

    3 publications · 204 citations

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  2. ME
    Marilyn E. Gist

    University of Washington, United States

    2 publications · 1.8K citations

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  3. DL
    Dennis L. Dossett

    University of Washington, United States

    2 publications · 161 citations

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  4. TR
    Terence R. Mitchell

    University of Washington, United States

    2 publications · 161 citations

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  5. PM
    Patrick M. Wright

    Cornell University, United States

    2 publications · 34 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Michigan State University

    East Lansing, United States

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    113 citations

  2. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    63 citations

  3. San Francisco State University

    San Francisco, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    21 citations

  4. Soochow University

    Taipei, Taiwan

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    64 citations

  5. Organization of American States

    Washington D.C., United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    1.3K citations

  6. Tufts University

    Medford, United States

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    87 citations

  7. Polynomics (Switzerland)

    Olten, Switzerland

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    37 citations

  8. State University of Management

    Moscow, Russia

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    84 citations

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  1. Academy of Management Review

    AMR · 2 publications · 1.8K citations

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  2. Academy of Management Journal

    AMJ · 2 publications · 24 citations

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  4. Journal of Applied Psychology

    2 publications · 161 citations

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  5. Journal of sport behavior

    JSB · 1 publications · 31 citations

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