Setting performance targets

Carolyn Stringer and Paul Shantapriyan

Targets are an important part of our work life, whether we are setting them or meeting them. Target setting forms part of the budgeting process and the performance management of business units and individuals. Unfortunately the behavioral impacts of target setting on performance are not well understood, and this can lead to serious consequences such as game playing. Target setting is an under-researched area. This book will help you fill the gap in target setting for performance. The pivotal issue in target setting is that it is an art as well as a science. Perhaps more of an art, requiring a

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Year of publication:	2012 ; 1. ed.
Authors:	Stringer, Carolyn
Other Persons:	Shantapriyan, Paul (contributor)
Publisher:	New York, NY : Business Expert Pr.
Subject:	Inflationssteuerung \| Inflation targeting \| Performance-Messung \| Performance measurement \| Theorie \| Theory \| Betriebswirtschaftliches Ziel \| Corporate objective

Extent:	144 S. Ill., graph. Darst.
Series:	Managerial accounting collection
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record 1. Setting performance targets -- 2. Budget targets -- 3. Target setting in changing conditions -- 4. Performance targets -- 5. Target difficulty -- 6. Multiple performance targets --7. Innovations in target setting -- 8. Conclusion: target setting, the lost art -- Appendix. Understanding probabilities -- Notes -- References -- Index. Also available in print.
ISBN:	1-283-89257-X ; 978-1-60649-138-6 ; 978-1-60649-137-9 ; 978-1-283-89257-5 ; 978-1-60649-137-9
Other identifiers:	10.4128/9781606491386 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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