Goals play significant role in decision making. Most organizations can be assumed to set and then pursue certain goals either stated explicitly or assumed implicitly. In realistic models, the goal is not a constant but a variable: it can erode due to persistent failure or it can evolve further as a result of confidence caused by success With respect to many different types of goal dynamics, there exist some models of limited and linear goal erosion dynamics in the literature. We extend the existing models to obtain a comprehensive model of goal dynamics, by including organizational capacity limits on performance improvement rate, performance decay when there is no effort, time constraints and pressures, motivation and frustration effects. The model constitutes a general theory of goal dynamics in organizations. Our model also demonstrates some strategies to avoid the undesirable goal and performance erosion in various unfavorable, risky goal seeking environments.

This is the whole item.

Date created

• 2007 July 29-2007 August 2

Type

• Document

Processing Activity

• Processing documentation available at: https://wiki.albany.edu/display/SCA/Processing+Ingested+Digital+Files

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International

  
  Contact Us for questions or additional rights.

ITEM CONTEXT

Part of

298eed5a7fe199ac661be72f3a39f134

Scope and Contents

Part of

0619e689ce89476bfd3b88323c5a9410

Scope and Contents

Part of

23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8

Scope and Contents

Collection

System Dynamic Society Records

Scope and Contents

Collecting area

• This collection is part of the University Archives