Look through the sentences and decide which of them are True (t) or False (f).

Employees want to understand and watch how their work contributes to corporate objectives.

The key point of being a good manager is to be hands-on while giving your people the space for their personal success.

The goals mustn’t be connected with larger organizational ambitions to be meaningful and effective in motivating employees.

Employees who understand the roles they play in company success are more likely to become detached from it.

Team members are likely to resent their manager if he insists on goals which are too challenging to accomplish.

Once a goal is set, discuss with your employee how he plans to meet it.

Most of the managers think about what an employee is personally trying to achieve in the context of work.

A manager needs to be sure personal goals of an employee contribute to the team, unit, or to the company.

A manager may avoid discussing with his employees what happened and what each of you think went wrong in case of a failure.

Managers should be willing to reflect on their own roles in the failure of their staff.

Choose the best answer to complete the following sentences.

Goal-setting is particularly important as a mechanism _______.

for giving current and year-end feedback

for providing ongoing and year-end tasks

A manager needs to balance his involvement with the employee's ownership over the process of meeting the goals because _______.

the failure may be reflected in his CV

the failure may influence the whole company

Achieving goals is often about_______ with things that don't go as planned.

making a compromise

forgetting about tradeoffs

No matter what level the employee is at, he should be able to _______.

operate exactly how his efforts feed into the broader company strategy

articulate exactly how his efforts feed into the broader market strategy

Ask your employee to _______ that directly contribute to the organization's overall target.

draft ideas

block out goals

If you a manager is overly cautious, he will miss opportunities and_______.

settle for top heights

get you into being too average among others

It is a good idea for a leader to help his people understand _______.

to whom they can rely on to achieve those goals

who they are dependent on to get higher salary

Managers don't wait for review time or the end of a project to_______.

check the time of their work

watch the progress

If an employee has expressed an interest in teaching a manger _______.

may try to find a way to realize their ambitions

may recommend him a new job

If a failure of an employee was something that was outside of his power or the goal was too ambitious, _______.

accept that it is disappointing but don't emphasize it

acknowledge the disappointment and dwell on it

Match the words from the left column with their definitions from the right.