Which of the following can hurt the performance of an organization?
A) Adopting realistic performance standards
B) Setting stretch goals for employees
C) Establishing operating budgets that regulate how managers and workers attain their goals
D) Using output controls to motivate managers and employees at different levels
E) Focusing on only one standard instead of a hundred different standards

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The number of standards or indicators of performance that an organization's managers use to evaluate efficiency, quality, and so on can run into the thousands or hundreds of thousands. If managers focus on just one standard (such as efficiency) and ignore others (such as determining what customers really want and innovating a new line of products to satisfy them), managers may end up hurting their organization's performance.

Which of the Following Can Hurt the Performance of an Organization