Affiliations: School of Business, University of Kansas, Summerfield Hall, Lawrence, KS, USA
Note: [*] This research has been supported by NSF Grant no. IST-8418863.
Abstract: Utilizing the concepts of behavior mechanisms and habitual domains, we offer a classification of decision problems and a general principle of effective goal setting as to select control variables (the set of measurable goals, their achievement levels and supportive systems) which can create favorable working conditions and relative high levels of charges and confidence on the performers so that they can allocate as much attention time as possible to perform the desired job-related operations in a most efficient and effective way. We give a detailed discussion on the applications of this principle over various classes of problems.
Keywords: Behavior mechanisms, habitual domains, goal setting, charge structures, active problem solving, avoidance justification, attention, activation density, core of habitual domains, implanting, habituation, classification of decision problems, parameters in goal setting, parameters in supportive systems
