MAN 3025 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Job Satisfaction, Job Performance, Specific Performance

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Management
• Course: MAN 3025
• Professor: Professor Archambeau

Document Summary

Motivation: the psychological processes that arouse and direct goal-directed behavior. Desire is created to fulfill a need as for food, safety, recognition. You search for ways to satisfy the need. You choose a type of behavior you think might satisfy the need. Content perspectives (need-based perspectives): theories that emphasize the needs that motivate people. Needs: physiological or psychological deficiencies that arouse behavior. People are motivated by five levels of needs: (1) physiological, (2) safety, (3) love, (4) esteem, (5) self-actualization. Our actions are aimed at fulfilling the deprived needs. Mcclelland"s acquired needs theory: achievement, affiliation, and power. Three needs achievement, affiliation, and power are major motives determining people"s behavior in the workplace. Achievement: desire to excel, to do something better or more efficiently, to solve problems, to achieve excellence in challenging tasks. Affiliation: desire for friendly and warm relations with other people. Deci and ryan"s self-determination theory competence, autonomy, and relatedness.