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 underst...

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Setting performance targets [electronic resource] / Carolyn Stringer and Paul Shantapriyan.
1st ed.
[New York, N.Y.] (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Business Expert Press, c2012.
1 electronic text (144 p.) : ill., digital file.
Managerial accounting collection, 2152-7121
Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-139) and index.
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.
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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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on December 23, 2011).
Goal setting in personnel management.
Strategic planning.
Target setting
goal-setting theory
motivation
performance measurement
performance management
strategy
value creation
external and internal benchmarking
relative performance targets
forecasts
target difficulty
stretch targets
highly achievable targets
line of sight
objective performance evaluations
subjective performance evaluations
incentive compensation
capped performance targets
operational budgets
fixed budgets
flexible budgets
rolling forecasts
controllability principle
weightings
short- and long-term targets
activity-based budgeting
Beyond Budgeting Roundtable Group
Electronic books.
Shantapriyan, Paul.
Print version: 9781606491379
Managerial accounting collection. 2152-7121
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