When employees must make challenging choices, they can refer to the goals for direction. They encourage preparation to decide how goals will be attained. Goals can be motivational and increase efficiency and performance since employees frequently set goals in order to fulfill a requirement of task. Assessment, review and control of goals allows an leader to compare the actual performance to the goals of the organizational and, if needed, make any necessary changes.
For leaders to be successful they must make certain an emphasis is placed on ensuring every employee, manager and supervisor recognizes what she or he should achieve in the present and in the future. When employees recognize what needs to be done, it is far easier for them to contribute. In addition, it is also extremely easier for managers and supervisors to do their jobs, to increase efficiency and productivity, and to supervise and manage proactively, instead of using their time to put out small fires after the …show more content…
Van Wart (2011) describes this process as, fundamentally having knowledge about the present day operation and where it is headed in the future. It is clearly defining external and internal issues at play within the organization and reviewing organizational patterns and trends and other information in the form of employee surveys, leadership reviews, assessments, meetings, interviews with staff and performance to date. Having an understanding of employee and the management team morale and what is hindering or helping them reach their goals is an important part of the process (p.