The primary significance of ensuring objectives are visible across all organizational levels is to foster alignment and coordination. When strategic objectives are clearly communicated and cascaded down into tactical and operational goals, it enables different units and individuals to understand their specific roles in achieving the organization's mission. This shared understanding allows for the synchronization of activities, allocation of resources, and consistent decision-making, preventing silos and ensuring that all parts of the organization are working cohesively toward common goals.

A. Showcasing leadership achievements is a potential secondary outcome, not the primary strategic purpose of making objectives visible, which is to drive coordinated organizational performance.

B. The goal is to promote collaboration and synergy. Fostering a purely competitive environment can lead to silos and actions that are detrimental to overall organizational objectives.

C. Identifying underperformance is a function of performance management, which relies on clear objectives. However, the primary goal is proactive coordination, not reactive employee correction.

1. OCEG. (2021). GRC Capability Model (Version 3.5).

Section 4.1.3, "Establish and Communicate Objectives": This section explicitly states, "Objectives must be established and communicated at all levels of the organization so that all parts of the organization can coordinate their activities to achieve them." This directly supports the answer that visibility allows for the coordination of activities.

Element 3, "ALIGN": The introduction to this element emphasizes that alignment of strategy with objectives and actions "ensures the organization reliably achieves objectives... while acting with integrity." This entire element is predicated on the coordination enabled by visible, shared objectives.

2. Racz, N., Weippl, E., & Seufert, A. (2010). A framework for Governance, Risk and Compliance. In Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

Section 3, "A GRC Framework": The paper discusses how a key aim of GRC is to "ensure that the organization acts in a coordinated way to achieve its objectives." This academic source reinforces that coordination is a fundamental outcome of a well-structured GRC approach, which includes visible and aligned objectives. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2010.353)