Gary P. Latham

A Theory of Goal Setting and Task Performance

Work Motivation Theory and Research at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century

In the first Annual Review of Psychology chapter since 1977 devoted exclusively to work motivation, we examine progress made in theory and research on needs, traits, values, cog...

Application of social learning theory to employee self-management of attendance.

Training in self-management was given to 20 unionized state government employees to increase their attendance at the work site. Analyses of variance revealed that compared to a ...

Effects of assigned versus participatively set goals, knowledge of results, and individual differences on employee behavior when goal difficulty is held constant.

Application of social-learning theory to training supervisors through behavioral modeling.

Self-management training for increasing job attendance: A follow-up and a replication.

Etude des effets d'une formation auto-regulatrice de la participation professionnelle aupres de 20 employes et du role de la perception de l'efficacite personnelle dans l'absent...