0 a goal-oriented person or team works hard to achieve good results in the tasks that they have been given:
1 a goal-oriented plan or activity is based on a number of things that must be achieved:
Analysts recommended a goal-oriented cost-cutting program to get the company back on track.
The behavioral result is that activation in this pathway is thought to facilitate top-down goal-oriented behavior and thereby simultaneously suppress alternative nongoal-oriented behaviors.
The choir activity included the performances, which made the work goal-oriented.
Because it is governed by mind, the process is goal-oriented.
We, therefore, decided to explore a more equal and consistent social perspective, a more coherent sequential network topology and to introduce goal-oriented musical activities.
We refer to this set of activities as a composite, "goal-oriented" activity.
Researchers who started to study anticancer drugs were therefore familiar with goal-oriented research, large-scale collaborative projects, and a complex division of labor.
Such conditions, however, are less representative for goal-oriented action which by definition is controlled by forthcoming, and thus necessarily anticipated, distal effects.
The reason may be partly that rational choice and goal-oriented individualism makes social scientists in the older cultures nervous.