Article: Effects of goal-setting interventions on selected basketball skills: a single-subject design.

Goal setting as a motivational approach to enhancing task performance is one of the most thoroughly researched areas in management and organizational environments. One of the earliest researchers to conduct detailed empirical work was Locke (1966), and his program of research laid the foundations for much. of the subsequent research, both basic and applied, into the effects of goal setting. This research was directed toward understanding why and how goal setting should produce enhanced task performance. Much of the research involving goal setting in organizational settings has been described elsewhere in both traditional narrative reviews (e.g., Locke & Latham, 1990) and ...

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