{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/use-group-goals-that-align-individual-contribution",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9116",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Use group goals that align individual contribution",
  "summary": "Goals should make contribution to the group outcome visible.",
  "kind": "principle",
  "body": "Set a specific shared outcome and define individual responsibilities as contributions to it, not competing scoreboards. Watch for targets that reward one role for externalizing cost to another.",
  "limits": [
    "Team-learning practices consume time. Use them where there is a real performance or coordination question, and do not substitute process rituals for domain expertise."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-lead-without-authority-stakeholder-systems"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-8B73EC2E6A998748"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "A meta-analysis of group goal setting found specific group goals associated with better group performance than nonspecific goals, while ego-centric individual goals could harm group performance.",
      "source_id": "RS-8B73EC2E6A998748",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "The evidence does not mean every group should receive harder goals or that numeric targets should override safety, quality or changing conditions.",
      "locator": "Abstract"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "When local optimization is damaging the shared result."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Team-learning practices consume time. Use them where there is a real performance or coordination question, and do not substitute process rituals for domain expertise."
  ],
  "example": "Migration, integration and support share a clean-cutover goal; each has contribution measures that cannot be improved by dumping unresolved work downstream.",
  "check": "Individual success cannot be achieved by predictably harming the group result.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-8B73EC2E6A998748",
      "title": "The Effect of Goal Setting on Group Performance: A Meta-Analysis",
      "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21744940/"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9116",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9117",
      "type": "use_before",
      "url": "/knowledge/share-leadership-around-the-work-not-titles"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-47952011564F7728",
      "title": "Lead without formal authority: stakeholder decisions, delegation, voice, and team learning",
      "url": "/collections/lead-without-formal-authority-stakeholder-decisions-delegation-voice-and-team-learning"
    }
  ]
}