Psychology 2990A/B Chapter Notes -Job Satisfaction, Job Performance, Job Enrichment

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2990A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

Achievement theory the theory of motitivation that emphasizes the need to accomplish something, to do a good job and be the best. Studis intensely since the 50s by david mcclelland. Study in poland, the level of concern for achievement was almost as high as in the us. Research also shows tha tmaagers hih in need to achieve display more respect for their subordinates. Men and women have been found to score significantly higher in thneed to achive than male and female employees who are not entrepreneurs. Two goal types mastery ( developing knowledge and skills) and performance( developing competence by performing better than other ppl). Study: college students from netherlands found that two thirds of preferred mastery over performance. Aka, wanted to achive self-satisfaction over performing better than others. Study: on employees of an energy company showed that mastery employees were more effective at their jobs than performance employees.