background: development in students' training management that emphasizes on using objective methods and more faculties' engagement in students evaluation, were motivation for application tools such as flowchart, checklists and rating scales. this study examined the effectiveness of performance rating tables (prts) in evaluation of medical interns in mashhad, iran. methods: internship ...

To determine the relationship between perceived goal structure and academic resilience mediated by academic motivation, a cluster sample of 461 high school students in Tehran was administered three instruments measuring the said constructs. Assuming the validities and reliabilities of the instruments, data analyses revealed that external motivation mediates the relationship between performance ...

Goal-setting effects on selected performance behaviors of 5 collegiate rugby players were assessed over an entire competitive season using self-generated targets and goal-attainment scaling. Results suggest that goal setting was effective for enhancing task-specific on-field behavior in rugby union.

This study tested the situational effects of goals and stress on the performance of complex tasks and on adaptation to change in the task. Difficult goals often exceed the individual’s resources and thus create stress. However, stress may be appraised as either challenge or threat. Challenge is experienced when there is an opportunity for self-growth with available coping strategies, whereas th...

Bargh et al. (2001) reported two experiments in which people were exposed to words related to achievement (e.g., strive, attain) or to neutral words, and then performed a demanding cognitive task. Performance on the task was enhanced after exposure to the achievement related words. Bargh and colleagues concluded that better performance was due to the achievement words having activated a "high-p...

Most psychological theories attribute people’s failure to achieve their goals exclusively to insufficient motivation or lack of skill. Here, we offer a complementary explanation that emphasizes the inherent complexity of the computational problems that arise from the structure of people’s goal systems. Concretely, we hypothesize that people’s capacity to achieve their goals can be predicted fro...

Computer task performance is an essential driver of end user productivity. Recent research indicates that computer self-efficacy (CSE) is an important determinant of computer task performance. Contrary to the significant interest in understanding the role of CSE in predicting computer task performance, little attention has been given to understanding the role of personal goal (PG), which can be...

CICS/ESA Version 4.1 and CICS/Transaction Server for OS/390 operating under MVS (Goal Mode) can provide significant performance improvements over MVS (Compatibility Mode). In Goal Mode, these systems provide a wealth of performance information that can be analyzed to remove constraints to improved CICS performance. This paper describes the information available in Goal Mode and provides suggest...

In spite of numerous observations that government organizations have high levels of organizational goal ambiguity that exert major influences on their other characteristics, few researchers have measured goal ambiguity and tested these frequent assertions. In previous research, we developed measures of four dimensions of goal ambiguity: mission comprehension ambiguity, directive goal ambiguity,...