He called it a " patterned normative order " of " cultural value patterns . " The correct impersonal end is to maintain this culture-bound value-rational order by coordinating four instrumental actions : pattern maintenance, goal attainment, adaptation, and integration.
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Although goal attainment is in theory based on five measures ( level and distribution of health, level and distribution of " responsiveness " and " fairness of financial contribution " ), the actual values assigned to most countries, including Canada, were never directly measured.
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Workplace friendships lead to more cohesive work groups, more satis�ed and committed employees, greater productivity, greater goal attainment, increased positive feelings about the organisation, can make both good and bad jobs better, and are a factor in preventing employee turnover and employee desire to leave the company.
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It enables an organization to consistently align goals and strategies across different units, enable measurement-based decision making, transparently communicating goals and strategies within the organization, and objectively monitoring goal attainment and the success / failure of defined strategies . The approach works as an integrator for existing measurement approaches in an organization.
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They assert that individuals who are commitment focused are expected to pursue goal-congruent actions when receiving positive feedback, as this feedback serves as evidence of their commitment to the goal; whereas progress-focused individuals perceive the same positive feedback as evidence of sufficient progress toward goal attainment and may subsequently pursue actions incongruent with goal achievement.
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First, Nunes and Dr�ze ( 2006 ) developed the endowed progress effect, which posits that endowing a consumer with some measure of artificial progress toward a given goal can subsequently increase the consumer's motivation to complete the goal, leading to faster and higher levels of goal attainment compared to consumers who have not received an endowment.
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A goal intention may be phrased in the following way : " I want to reach X ! " Implementation intentions on the other hand are much more specific and seek to connect a future critical situation ( an opportunity for goal attainment ) with a specific goal-directed behavior, thereby leading to what could be called automatization in goal attainment.
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A goal intention may be phrased in the following way : " I want to reach X ! " Implementation intentions on the other hand are much more specific and seek to connect a future critical situation ( an opportunity for goal attainment ) with a specific goal-directed behavior, thereby leading to what could be called automatization in goal attainment.
