Psychology 2660A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Job Satisfaction, Work Motivation, Procedural Justice

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2660A/B
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

Motivation: internal state that induces a person to engage in particular behavior: direction: the choice of specific behaviors from a large number of possible. Work motivation behaviors: intensity: the amount of effort a person expends at doing a task, persistence: continuing engagement in a behavior over time, alt def. desire to acquire or achieve some goal. Work motivation: a set of energetic forces that originate both within as well as beyond an individual"s being, to initiate work-related behavior, and to determine its form, direction, intensity, and duration. Theory continuum: distal motivation theories: deal with processes that are far removed from the behavior. E. g. need theories: proximal motivation theories: deal with the processes that are close to the behavior. Need theories: motivation comes from within, motivate by satisfying needs. Need hierarchy theory: state that fulfillment of human needs is necessary for both physical and psychological health. Exceptions, some individuals find certain higher-order needs to be more important.