Abstract
Many organizations use goal setting as a professional tool to get employees to achieve gains within the workplace. Many librarians in the United States participate in setting New Year’s resolutions as part of their personal goal-setting behavior. As studies indicate correlations between personal goal-setting behaviors, performance and attitude in professional roles, the researchers posit that learning how library employees set and achieve New Year’s resolutions could provide insight into how organizations can improve employee goal setting. An online survey was conducted in 2016 with 512 respondents. Results showed that respondents who self-reported as ambitious tend to be more successful in achieving their goals. Furthermore, ambitious respondents utilized goal-setting best practices more than less ambitious respondents. Respondents with a less clear sense of purpose in life tended to put in less effort or gave up more often than those with a clearer sense of purpose.
Highlights
With the onset of a new year, people across the United States turn to a longstanding tradition - setting New Year’s resolutions
Personal goals and professional goals are often approached in different ways
“Personal career goals represent items that are important to an individual from their personal and unique perspective, whereas work responsibilities/tasks are required of a clinician educator based on the role they play in their department and medical school.”[3]. Professional goals are more often directed by organizational initiatives and typically have more supervisory or managerial oversight
Summary
With the onset of a new year, people across the United States turn to a longstanding tradition - setting New Year’s resolutions. “Personal career goals represent items that are important to an individual from their personal and unique perspective, whereas work responsibilities/tasks are required of a clinician educator based on the role they play in their department and medical school.”[3] Professional goals are more often directed by organizational initiatives and typically have more supervisory or managerial oversight. Another distinction between personal and professional goals tend to be the specificity of the goals. Personal goals are often what might be described as idealistic, whereas professional goals are more likely to be more task specific
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