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To ensure a higher job performance at any organization, goal-setting, feedback and training, rewards and positive reinforcement are extremely significant. However, I believe that amongst these three basic factors in a performance improvement cycle, rewards and positive reinforcement are especially crucial. Although one cannot deny the significant role goal-setting plays in the performance of the workers, a reward can be used as a guiding force for them. Moreover, the majority of the workforce belongs to the millennials category. They are more purpose-oriented and want to be appraised at regular intervals. Rewards play as a parameter for them to understand what they are doing well and what should be improved to achieve the desired outcome. Also, monetary rewards motivate an employee to set tougher goals, while non-monetary rewards lead them to easier goal-setting. It manifests that rewards can impact the goal-setting activities of employees and reflects the dominance of rewards over goal-setting.

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Determining, evaluating, and acknowledging an employee’s job performance is a cyclic process which ensures a smooth work mechanism at any organization. These factors possess a significant place in any workplace, and in the absence of any factor will lead to an abruption or inability to achieve the desired outcome. Although, the importance of goal setting and training can never be denied, as they are extremely critical in mainstreaming the strives management and employees put in a company.

I believe that reward and positive reinforcement is the most important factor amongst them.
Rewards and positively reinforcements are extremely important for a better outcome. It is because of two reasons. Firstly, the current era is the Millennials’ period, as most of the workforce belongs to this category. Forbes claimed that Millennials are more productive and engaged when they are given a sense of purpose, and they require a consistent appraisal CITATION Moo141 l 1033 (Moore, 2014). Rewards and positive reinforcements guide the employees that they are going in the right direction. In other words, it is a parameter for the workers to measure their level of achievements. Secondly, a research shows that cash rewards encourage an employee to set more robust goals. In case of non-cash rewards, they set easier goals, and the productivity is reduced CITATION Pre151 l 1033 (Presslee, Vance, & Webb, 2015).
This research also reflects that rewarding is more important than goal-setting because the former motivates a person to learn from the successful employees’ achievements and understand their goals to achieve positive outcomes, which the company is looking for. In short, goal-setting is extremely important, but rewards can be used as a tool to motivate an employee to set the goals and understand the right practices to achieve the desired outcome. It also helps them to measure their future endeavors.
References
BIBLIOGRAPHY Moore, K. (2014, October 2). Millennials Work for Purpose, Not Paycheck. Retrieved from Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/karlmoore/2014/10/02/millennials-work-for-purpose-not-paycheck/#37d56a546a51
Presslee, A., Vance, T. W., & Webb, R. A. (2015, November 17). The Effects of Reward Type on Employee Goal Setting, Goal Commitment, and Performance. Retrieved from Incentive Research Foundation: http://theirf.org/research/the-effects-of-reward-type-on-employee-goal-setting-goal-commitment-and-performance/1627/