ADM 2336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Bayesian Probability, Motivation, Expectancy Theory
16 Mar 2016
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Chapter 6: deined as a set of energeic forces that originates both within and outside an employee, iniiates work related efort, and determines its direct, intensity, and persistence. Engagement: a widely used term in contemporary workplaces that has diferent meaning depending on the context; most oten refers to moivaion, but can refer to afecive commitment. Describes the cogniive process that employees go through to make choices among diferent voluntary responses. Employee behaviour is directed toward pleasure and away from pain or, more generally, toward certain outcome away from others. Our choices depend on three speciic beliefs that are based in our past learning and experience: expectancy, instrumentality, and valence. Deined as the belief that a person has the capabiliies needed to execute the behaviours required for task success. When employees consider eicacy levels for a given task, they irst consider their past accomplishments the degree to which they have succeeded or failed in similar sorts of tasks in the past.
