MHR 405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Human Capital, Learning Organization, Equity Theory
16 Mar 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
What is motivation: the forces within a person that affect the direction, intensity, and persistence of voluntary behaviour, applying particular effort level (intensity), for a certain amount of time (persistence), toward a particular goal (direction) What are the drivers of employee engagement: goal setting, employee involvement, organizational justice, organizational comprehension, sufficient resources. Needs: drives (also called primary needs) are hardwired characteristics of the brain that try to keep us in balance by correcting deficiencies. Drives accomplish this task by producing emotions that energize us to act on our environment: drives are innate and universal, which means that everyone has them and they exist from birth. Furthermore, drives are the prime movers of behavior because they generate emotions, which put people in a state of readiness to act on their environment: drives, and the emotions produced by these drives, produce human needs. We define needs as goal directed forces that people experience.
