Research · Locke and Latham, American Psychologist 57(9), 2002
Building a Practically Useful Theory of Goal Setting and Task Motivation: A 35-Year Odyssey
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Supports the law that a commitment is specific and measurable: specific, difficult goals produce higher performance than vague or absent ones, which is why a target is a level and a window rather than a direction alone.
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What it informs — 1
This source is what the model was built from. It does not itself commit the model to anything — a commitment does, and the ones it informs are named above.