Goal-oriented

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A system, person, or organization that tends to achieve a goal and demonstrate it in subsequent actions.

Goal-oriented or goal-driven/goal-directed/purposive is a property of systems which are able to think/reason/inference using symbols.

To be goal-oriented is the concept which is included in the ontologies of systemics, cognitive science and engineering.

[edit] Examples

In engineering, an autonomous device can be goal-oriented. (A robotic car that drives from point A to point B, for example.)
In cognitive science, in the case of a sub-symbolic reasoning the concept goal is not "visible"/perceived neither for the reasoning system nor for its observer.
In psychology, socio-cognitive research and Artificial intelligence, human rational behaviour is also goal-oriented.
In organization sciences, the identification of an intervention goal of an individual and his/her goal-oriented behaviour, is more complex because, in real situation:
- every human usually has more than one goal,
- declared goal can be not congruent with his/her behavior,
- organization goals can not be the goal of its employers.