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Edwin A. Locke (born May 15, 1938) is an American psychologist and a pioneer in goal-setting theory. He is a retired Dean's Professor of Motivation and Leadership at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was also affiliated with the Department of Psychology.
Edwin A. Locke began to examine goal setting in the mid-1960s and continued researching goal setting for more than 30 years. [6] [9] [10] He found that individuals who set specific, difficult goals performed better than those who set general, easy goals. [5] Locke derived the idea for goal-setting from Aristotle's form of final causality ...
[3] [4] [5] Stajkovic co-authored papers with Albert Bandura, Edwin Locke, and Fred Luthans. [ 6 ] [ 5 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Stajkovic is a contributing editor to the Journal of Applied Psychology [ 10 ] , as well as a member of the Midwestern Psychological Association [ 11 ] and Society for Science of Motivation.
A significant model that narrowed the scope of the dispositional approach was the Core Self-evaluations Model, proposed by Timothy A. Judge, Edwin A. Locke, and Cathy C. Durham in 1997. [16] Judge et al. argued that there are four core self-evaluations that determine one's disposition towards job satisfaction: self-esteem , general self ...
In Personnel Psychology, Edwin A. Locke wrote that "Bandura does everything that an inductive theory builder should do." [4]: 802 Locke provided a list of 12 such accomplishments of the book – for example, "7. He discusses the causes of self-efficacy (e.g., enactive mastery, role modeling, persuasion, etc.) and shows, in detail, how these ...
The failure of Locke and Point Four to work together became more consequential when Locke's plan of a $100 million “Arab Development Plan” was not approved by Congress. Locke returned to the United States on a mission to convince President Truman of the plan's merits, but was sent back to Beirut with a different set of goals.
The constructive developmental framework (CDF) is a theoretical framework for epistemological and psychological assessment of adults. The framework is based on empirical developmental research showing that an individual's perception of reality is an actively constructed "world of their own", unique to them and which they continue to develop over their lifespan.
In addition to the theoretical deficiencies of Locke's theory of property, Wood also argues that Locke also provides a justification for the dispossession of indigenous land. The idea that making land productive serves as the basis of property rights establishes the corollary that the failure to improve land could mean forfeiting property ...