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set of energetic forces that originates both within and outside an employee, initiates work related effort, and determines direction.
* contingent upon performance |
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| Hands over your head excercise |
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1) Goal level- goal setting: how high you set a goal, striving for a hard goal= powerful
2) Self-efficacy: belief in your ability
3) Intrinsic motivation: enjoyment of the task
4)Valenced Reward: doesn't matter if its not a useful reward
5)Competition
6)Face "Average person can...." you try and beat that
7) Lottery |
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| Cognitive process that employees go through to make choices among different voluntary responses. |
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| 3 beliefs of expectancy theory |
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1)Expectancy: belief that exerting a high level of EFFORT will result in the successful performance of some task
2)Instrumentality: belief that succesful PERFORMANCE will result in some outcomes
3)Valence- "Will the outcomes of effort and performance be satisfying? Positive or negative?
ex: Valence reward: bonuses, salary increase |
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| Self-efficacy (and 4 influences) |
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belief that a person has the ability to accomplish a task-specific activity...kind of self-confidence.
*Has the highest correlation to motivation
Four influences:
1)Past experiences
2)Vicarious-leadership by example
3)Verbal persuasion
4)Emotional cues |
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Needs (we are motivated by our needs)
what are 5 types of needs? |
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1) Existence - need for food, shelter, safety
2)Relatedness- need to create and maintain lasting, positive, interpersonal relationships
3)Control- need to be able to predict and control one's future
4)Esteem- need to hold a high evaluation
of oneself and to feel effective and respected by others.
5)Meaning (self-actualization theory)- need to perform takss that one cares about and that appeal to one's ideals and sense of purpose. |
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motivation that is controlled by some contingency that depends on task performance
EXAMPLES: pay, bonuses, promotions, support etc. |
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motivation that is felt when task performance serves as its own remards
EXAMPLES: employment, accomplishment, knowledge gain, skill development etc.
*enjoyment of the task itself |
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| What kind of motivation is recognition? |
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| What is a hygiene variable? |
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Variable that satisfies us or dissatisfies.
Ex: Humor, achievement vs. lack of money |
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| Why would there ever be controversy over whether intrinsic and extrinsic effect are additive? |
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| Because you can have both, together, they represent an employee's "total motivation" and they are SYNERGISTIC |
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Views goals as the primary drivers of the intensity and persistence of effort.
-Theory argues that assigning employees specific and difficult goals will result in higher levels of performance than assigning no goals, easy goals, or do-your-best goals. |
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| What is a difficult/hard goal? |
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Goal that stretches an employee to perform at his or her maximum level while still stayin within the boundaries of his/her ability.
-Influences self-set goals
-Trigger task strategies
-Goal commitment
*If goals become impossible, self-efficacy diminishes which wipes out goal commitment.
-In learning condition, hard goals can actually hurt performance because ppl. desperately switch betwn. task strategies.
-In task performance, intensity and persistence is maximized. |
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| Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Results-Based, and Time-Sensitive |
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Motivation doesn't just depend on your own beliefs and circumstances but also on what happens to other ppl.
*Employees create a mental ledger of the INPUTS (contributions and investments) they put into their jobs.
* Theory also argues that you compare your ratio of outcomes and inputs to the COMPARISON OTHER.
*Any imbalance in ratios trigger EQUITY DITRESS, an internal tension that can only be alleviated by restoring balance in ratios. |
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| Psychological empowerment |
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| Energy rooted in the belief that work tasks contribute to some larger purpose. (Intrinsic motivation) |
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| Captures the value of a work goal or purpose, relative to a person's ideals/passions. |
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| sense of choice in the initiation and continuation of works tasks. |
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| captures a person's belief in his or her capability to perform work task succesfully....WTF THIS IS THE SAME THING AS SELF-EFFICACY! |
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| Motivation correlations to job performance and organizational commitment.... |
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| Motivation has a strong positive effect on job perf. and moderate positive effect on organizational commitment |
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