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Encyclopedia > Goal (management)

A goal is a state of affairs or a state of a concrete activity domain which a person or a system is going/tends to achieve or obtain. Image File history File links Merge-arrows. ... An objective or goal is a personal or organizational desired end point in development. ... Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... For other uses, see System (disambiguation). ...


A desire or an intention becomes a goal if and only if an action for achieving it, is activated (see goal-oriented). Look up desire in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... An agents intention in performing an action is their specific purpose in doing so, the end or goal they aim at, or intend to accomplish. ... A system, person, or organization that tends to achieve a goal and demonstrate it in subsequent actions. ...


Morten Lind and J.Rasmussen distinguished three fundamental categories of goals related to technological system management: production goal, safety goal and economy goal.


The above categories can be decomposed according criteria related to the numerous types of goal-oriented activities and goal domains (where the goal is defined). A system, person, or organization that tends to achieve a goal and demonstrate it in subsequent actions. ...


For any successful business system, it means deriving profits by making the best quality of goods or the best quality of services available to the end user (customer) at the best possible cost. Goal management should include: In economics, a business is a legally-recognized organizational entity existing within an economically free country designed to sell goods and/or services to consumers, usually in an effort to generate profit. ... For other uses, see System (disambiguation). ... Profit is what is gained, after costs are accounted for. ... Good (accounting) - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Services are: plural of service Tertiary sector of industry IRC services Web services the name of a first-class cricket team in India This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Customers are waiting in front of a famous fashion shop for its grand opening in Hong Kong. ... In economics, business, and accounting, a cost is the value of inputs that have been used up to produce something, and hence are not available for use anymore. ...

  • Assessment and dissolution of non-rational blocks to success
  • Time management
  • Frequent reconsideration (consistency checks)
  • Feasibility checks
  • Adjusting milestones and main goal target

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Time management is straightforwardly defined as the management of time in order to make the most out of it. ... Possibility comprises that which one can achieve, or alternatively ones potential. ... A Spanish kilometre stone A milestone on the Boston Post Road in Harvard Square, Massachusetts, USA Slate milestone near Bangor, Wales A milestone or kilometre sign is one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road at regular intervals, typically at the side of the road or in...

Personal goals

Individuals can have personal goals. A student may set a goal of a high mark in an exam. An athlete might walk five miles a day. A traveler might try to reach his destination city within three hours.


Managing goals can give returns in all areas of life. By knowing precisely what one wants to achieve, makes clear what to concentrate and improve on.


Goal setting and planning (goalwork) gives long-term vision and short-term motivation. It focuses acquisition of knowledge and helps to organize resources. Goal Setting involves setting specific, measurable and time targeted objectives. ...


Efficient Goalwork includes recognizing and resolving any guilt, inner conflict or limiting belief that might cause you to sabotage your efforts. By setting clearly defined goals, one can measure and take pride in the achievement of those goals. One can see progress in what might have seemed a long grind.


Achieving personal goals

Achieving complex and difficult goals requires focus, long-term diligence and effort. Success in any field will require foregoing blaming, excuses and justifications for poor performance or lack of adequate planning or in short emotional maturity. The achievement of a personal goal is also affected by the measure of belief that the person has in their ability to achieve it.[1] Look up focus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...


Long term achievements are based on short-term achievements. Emotional control over the small moments of the single day makes a big difference in the long term.


By accepting a degree of realism within one's own goals, one allows oneself not to change reality to match his own dreams by his own efforts alone, but to accept it how it is until a certain degree. This degree of "laziness" can prevent one from falling in unhappiness by losing too much control of life by trying to specialize in a very small area and to become a top leader in that field. No matter what level of society one identify with, it is very likely that one will keep the above and below scheme. On the other side, to put up personal goals does not necessarily mean merely to put up goals for one's own best. One does not need to put personal and non-personal in a binary opposition as in egoistic/altruistic, body/mind, cultural/natural etc. One may say that there are elements in the making and realising personal goals that necessarily are transpersonal. In the interzone of the personal and transpersonal, the personal but also culturally dependent judgements of tastes and values will be challenged, and probably changed. In such personal processes, that might be termed crisis, which often occurs in the processes of achieving personal goals, the hierarchised up and down, better or worse scheme can be altered. The term Transpersonal is often used to refer to psychological categories that transcend the normal features of ordinary ego-functioning. ...


Achievement can be explained by A=IM where A is Achievement, I is Intelligence, and M is Motivation. It can be seen that when motivation is equal to zero, achievement will always equal zero, no matter what intelligence is. The same thing can be seen for intelligence because if it is equal to zero, achievement will always equal zero. The higher the intelligence and the motivation, the higher the achievement.


Goal Management in Organizations

Goal management is the process of recognizing or inferring goals of individual team members, abandoning goals that are no longer relevant, identifying and resolving conflicts among goals, and prioritizing goals consistently for optimal team collaboration and effective operations.


Organizational Goal Management solution ensures that individual employee goals and objectives are aligned with the vision and strategic goals of the entire organization. Goal Management provides organizations with a mechanism to effectively communicate corporate goals and strategic objectives to each person across the entire organization. The key is having it all emanate from a pivotal source and providing each person with a clear, consistent organizational goal message. With Goal Management, every employee will understand how his or her efforts contribute to the success of the enterprise.


The example of goal types in business management:

  • Consumer Goals: This refers to supplying a product or service that the market/consumer want.
  • Product Goals: This refers to supplying a product which is outstanding compared to other products - perhaps due to the likes of quality, design, reliability and novelty.
  • Operational Goals: This refers to running the organization so that the best use is made of management skills, technology and resources.
  • Secondary Goals: This refers to goals which are not a priority for the organization.

See also

An objective or goal is a personal or organizational desired end point in development. ... Goal-setting theory is one of the most popular theories in organizational psychology. ... Goals of learning are thought to be a key factor influencing the level of a students intrinsic motivation. ... In philosophy of mind, direction of fit is the distinguishing feature between two types of intentional mental states: facta (singular factum) are states with a mind-to-world direction of fit. ... Goal programming is a branch of multiple objective programming, which in turn is a branch of multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA), also known as multiple-criteria decision making (MCDM). ... Operations Research or Operational Research (OR) is an interdisciplinary branch of mathematics which uses methods like mathematical modeling, statistics, and algorithms to arrive at optimal or good decisions in complex problems which are concerned with optimizing the maxima (profit, faster assembly line, greater crop yield, higher bandwidth, etc) or minima... Strategic planning is an organizations process SCREW YOU, RILEY of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. ... Strategic management is the art and science of formulating, implementing and evaluating cross-functional decisions that will enable an organization to achieve its objectives[1]. It is the process of specifying the organizations objectives, developing policies and plans to achieve these objectives, and allocating resources to implement the policies... The phrase Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) was proposed by James Collins and Jerry Porras in their 1996 article entitled Building Your Companys Vision. ... SWOT Analysis, is a strategic planning tool used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats involved in a project or in a business venture. ...

References

  1. ^ Hargreaves, Julie: The 3 Keys To Achievement, Oct 2003, http://www.hark.net.au/articles/achievement.htm
  • Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox. The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement. ISBN 0-88427-061-0

External Links

  • Free Goal Setting - a simple method to motivate you to achieve your goal.

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