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Task (project management)Goal settingPsychologyComputer scienceCognitive psychologySocial psychologyEconomicsManagement
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- 1990
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Edwin A. Locke,
Gary P. Latham
(1990).
A theory of goal setting & task performance.
Medical Entomology and Zoology
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