target settings definition
Goal setting (also goal setting theory) involves the development of an action plan designed to motivate and guide a person or group toward a goal.Goal setting can be guided by goal-setting criteria (or rules) such as SMART criteria.Goal setting is a major component of personal-development and management literature.dwin A. Locke began to examine goal setting in the mid-1960s and continued researching goal setting for over thirty years. Locke derived the idea for goal-setting from Aristotle 's form of final causality.