Goal setting is a tool that helps employees understand expectations and improve productivity by providing clear objectives. It involves collaboratively planning performance, identifying key result areas, and establishing performance standards that are both quantitative and qualitative. Overall, effective goal setting enhances organizational direction and job clarity.

1. Goal Setting

2. What is Goal Setting?
• It is an effective tool for making progress by
ensuring that employee is clearly aware of
what is expected from him/her if an objective
is to be achieved

3. Goal Setting Process

4. Significance of Goal Setting
• Overall goal is like a mission statement for the
organization
• Sets the direction for the planning process
• Sets the General direction for the job
• Improves the Productivity of the Individual
– You know where you fit in
– You know what is expected
– Encourages effort to achieve
– Fair basis for appraise the performance

5. Writing the overall Goal for a job

6. Goal Setting
• Plan performance Collaboratively
• Be clear about the “why”

7. Determining Key Result Areas
• Should accurately reflect the current job
• Breaking down the Job into 5-8 major
components
• Identify each job component with a simple
label
• State each job component into Key Result
Areas

8. Writing the Key Result Area

9. Determining Performance Standard
• Level of performance that defines what is
acceptable and what is not acceptable
• Performance Standard should be Quantitative
as well as Qualitative