The effects of goal publicity and incentives on self-set performance goals

• Main Authors: Chen, Clara Xiaoling, Yin, Huaxiang, Zhang, Yue
• Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Business::Accounting; Performance Goal; Goal Publicity
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146618
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Many companies encourage employees to set their own performance goals and do not attach formal incentives to the achievement of these goals. In this environment, some organizations make employees' self-set performance goals public while other organizations do not. We predict that, due to strate...