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• Localización: Harvard business review, ISSN 0017-8012, Vol. 92, Nº 6, 2014, págs. 28-29
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article examines research on ethics conducted by David T. Welsh and Lisa D. Ordóñez in relationship to goal setting in personnel management. A research exercise conducted by the two which found that participants in a mathematics test given the hardest problems were 84 percent likelier to cheat is discussed as an indication that continuous setting of high goals can negatively affect organizational performance.