Goals Can Serve as Benchmarks for Salespeople to Know How

Goals can serve as benchmarks for salespeople to know how they are doing.Since compensation is tied to performance,the effect of seeing how much they've done and how much they have left to do:

A) discourages them from even trying to meet their goals
B) encourages them to set goals they will probably not be able to meet
C) forces them to revise their goals downward so they can hit them
D) has no effect on their performance
E) motivates them to do their work to earn more