What are the limitations of goal setting?

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Answer: If people lack relevant ability and knowledge, a better course might be simply to urge them to do their best or to set a goal to learn rather than a goal to achieve a specific performance level. Individual performance goals can be dysfunctional if people work in a group and cooperation among team members is essential to group performance. Goals aimed at maximizing individual performance can create competition and reduce cooperation, thereby hurting group performance. Goals can generate manipulative game-playing and unethical behavior. In addition, people who are not on track to meet their goals are more likely to act unethically than are people who are trying to do their best but have no specific performance goals. Productivity goals will likely enhance productivity, but they may also cause employees to neglect other areas, such as learning, tackling new projects, or developing creative solutions to job-related problems.