Abstract: A method for dynamically controlling the alignment of multi-nested Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) is implemented via an application service provider server including a processor. The method includes executing, via a network, an enterprise application on a remote computing system and causing surfacing of a user interface on the display of the remote computing system during the execution of the enterprise application, where the user interface corresponds to a goal-setting feature of the enterprise application. The method also includes receiving, via the surfaced user interface, user input including an alignment permission policy for a multi-nested OKR of an enterprise, where the alignment permission policy defines a list of enterprise users who are allowed to align child OKR objects to a parent objective of the multi-nested OKR. The method further includes applying the alignment permission policy to the multi-nested OKR.