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Question: You are a team leader in a high tech company. Last week you assigned your team a challenging project that needs to be completed in less than a month. You are now under the impression that the team is not very engaged. What would be three strategies you could use to enhance your team members'goal commitmentaccording togoal setting theory?Describe these strategies and how you would apply them.

Reference:

Goal Setting Theory

Views (self-set) goals as the primary drivers of motivation.

-Research shows that assigning employees specific and difficult goals leads to higher self-set goals, which, in turn will result in higher levels of performance

Why do specific and difficult goals have such positive effects?

-Goals determine the intensity of effort directed at goal-relevant activities, and they affect the persistence of effort over time.

-Goals trigger the creation of task strategies, defined as learning plans and problem-solving approaches used to achieve successful performance.

Moderators on Task Performance

oFeedback consists of updates on employee progress toward goal attainment.

oTask complexity reflects how complicated the information and actions involved in a task are, as well as how much the task changes.

oGoal commitment is defined as the degree to which a person accepts a goal and is determined to try to reach it.

SMART goal: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Results-oriented, Time-bound

Strategies to promote goal commitment:

Rewards: specific to goal attainment(bonus);

Publicity: nay create social pressure;

Support: from supervisors, if goal seen as tough;

Participation: a loaded word; often just means some level of collaboration, to promote goal's 'ownership'

Resources: ensure they're available to those targeted for motivation, and remove constraints