In my current organization, we do incorporate goals into our annual employee review process but not objectives. Each employee has individual objectives to help meet their goals but that's not what they are measured upon in their review. “Goals are outcome statements that define what an organization is trying to accomplish, both programmatically and organizationally” (Anonymous, 2015). As a nonprofit organization, we are funded primarily by grants. Our grants are given based on the organizational goals, not objectives and therefore it is critical that all employees are held accountable for meeting the organizational goals for mission purposes as well as for the continued funding of our work. We don't measure meeting objectives because it's important for each employee to have some ownership of their work and how they contribute to meeting the organizational goals.

Anonymous. (2015). Management Principles. Retrieved June 20, 2015 from https://courses.candelalearning.com/principlesmanagement1x1/.