BUSI 3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Goal Setting, Work Motivation
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Psychological processes that cause arousal, direction and persistence of voluntary actions that are goal directed. Work motivation: set of energetic factors that originate within as well as outside an individual to initiate work-related behaviour and to determine intensity, direction and persistence. Intensity: amount of effort expended in pursuit of an activity: direction: extent that efforts are channeled in a direction that benefits the organization (choice of what to expend energy on, persistence: sustained energy over time. Intrinsic: motivation that stems from the direct relationship between worker and task, is usually self-applied: extrinsic: motivation stems from work environment external to the task and is usually self-applied by someone else. Potential score = variety + identity + significance x autonomy x feedback. 3: vroom expectancy theory, effort will lead to good performance (expectancy, good performance will lead to rewards (instrumentality, the rewards will satisfy employee"s personal goals (valence) Force ----(e = 0. 3) ----------- high performance (v)