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What is Management by Objectives

New Perspectives and Possibilities in Strategic Management in the 21st Century: Between Tradition and Modernity
MBO is a process in which a manager and an employee agree on specific performance goals and then develop a plan to reach them.
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OKR Methodology: Challenges and Trends
Bruno Cortines Linares Fernandes (Universidade Lusófona, Lisboa, Portugal) and Jorge Vareda Gomes (Universidade Lusófona, Lisboa, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-9261-1.ch011
Abstract
In a changing world dominated by fierce competition, it is imperative that companies have the necessary agility to adapt to the market constraints where they operate, investing in frameworks that promote the achievement of planned results. There are many tools that can help managers in setting goals; however, one became very well-known because it helped large companies like Google to achieve success: OKR – objectives and key results. When compared to others, OKR is still little publicized and used, leaving open some questions that the authors intend to answer in this work. A case study was carried out in a Brazilian company using a qualitative methodology and interviews and document analysis that only defines goals
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Strategic, Performance, and Competency Management Models in Higher Education: A Narrative Review on Change Management
A model that involves the comparison of the achieved results with the previous defined goals, for instance at the beginning of a certain evaluation period.
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