From Management Goal-Setting to Organizational Results: Transforming Strategies Into Action

Shows how managers in any organisational setting can improve their own and their teams’ results through a step-by-step approach to setting goals and then - most importantly - by putting them into action. Curtis lays bare the linkages between organisational culture, philosophy, ethics, and the management of information and change, and shows how they contribute to goal setting and achievement. Throughout Curtis argues that deciding what to do may be an essential component of goal setting, but the real challenge is in getting things done, and it is here that so many goal-setting systems fail. Part 1 addresses the managerial philosophy underlying goal setting. The theory of goal setting is covered in Part 2. Studies are reviewed that show that organisations, teams and individuals that set clear, challenging goals produce better results than those who do not. The next part begins by addressing goal setting from an organisational perspective. Team goal setting follows. Techniques for individual goal setting are discussed in Part 5. Part 4 pulls organisational, team and individual goal setting together by examining the ways information must be managed in a goal-oriented setting. Part 7 provides the techniques necessary to implement the goal-setting philosophy in a rapidly changing world. The text concludes with an examination of the ultimate purpose of management, to produce positive results.