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Goal displacement

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In management & leadership, goal displacement means: A process in which a means, rule or secondary target comes to replace the organisation's original purpose.

In Turkish: amaç kayması

How it is used

Use when compliance with a procedure becomes an end in itself, even without deliberate manipulation of a score.

Example sentences

  1. Goal displacement occurred when completing the checklist became more important than helping the customer.

    A tool intended to support service becomes the priority over service itself.

  2. The charity reviewed its reporting demands to reduce goal displacement among local teams.

    Administrative demands are assessed against the purpose they should support.

Common collocations

  • avoid goal displacement
  • recognise goal displacement
  • mission statementA short written statement of an organisation's purpose: what it does, who it serves and what makes it different, often shared with employees and the public.
  • objectiveA specific, measurable result that a team or organisation plans to achieve by a certain date, usually as one step towards a wider goal.

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