Question

In what ways do goals and objectives help managers control various processes within an organization? How do specific and measurable goals affect employees and promote organizational performance? Provide an example from your own experience of when a specific goal or objective provided beneficial control over a process. Explain what the beneficial control was and how did it positively impact organizational performance.
Textbook: Principles of Management-v.1.1

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Answer:

In what ways do goals and objectives help managers control various processes within an organization?

Goals establish the basis of the corporate strategy. Without clear goals, managers cannot devise and implement a corporate strategy, and without a corporate strategy, the firm does not have a clear path of action.

As we can see, goals are very important for an organization because they determine what the company should achieve, and what actions and policies the company should implement in order to achieve it.

How do specific and measurable goals affect employees and promote organizational performance?

Employees become motivated because they can actually see what their performance is like, and how it can be improved upon in case its not meeting the organizational performance standards.

However, managers should be careful when setting these measurable goals, and should also be flexible: if an employee does not meet these goals in his first attempt, they should try to understand why, and work with the employee so that he or she can improve their performance.