{
  "title": "Demanding targets: improving performance without distorting the work",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/leadership-objectifs-exigeants-sans-deformer-le-travail-sion-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-10-06",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "An ambitious target can improve performance. It guarantees neither the quality of the work nor the accuracy of the reported result.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Executive Leadership",
  "place": {
    "name": "Sion",
    "region": "Valais",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Edwin A."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The reported result is not always the achieved result",
      "point": "Maurice E."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "It would be excessive to conclude that ambitious targets make employees dishonest, or that all numerical requirements should be abandoned."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot decide",
      "point": "An experiment on performance reporting cannot establish how frequently misleading reports occur in a Sion business."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Sion",
      "point": "As an application exercise for the “Leadership d'excellence” programme in Sion, a team could track a single operational target for one month, alongside a non-negotiable quality criterion defined at the outset."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Latham",
      "year": "2002",
      "source": "American Psychologist"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Douma",
      "year": "2004",
      "source": "Academy of Management Journal"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 428,
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  "relatedPages": {
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    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/sion",
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  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}