Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Job Performance, Profit Sharing, Merit Pay

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Barry Hawn

Document Summary

Motivation: a set of energetic forces that originates both within and outside an employee, initiates work-related effort, and determines its direction, intensity, and persistence. Set of energetic forces = multiple forces. Intensity = how hard an employee works. Persistence = for how long an employee works. For example: bill is paid for the number of apples that he picks at apple wedge farms. As such, bill directs substantial effort, 10-hours a day, to picking as many apples as possible. A theory that describes the cognitive process that employees go through to make choices among different voluntary responses. Expectancy: the belief that exerting a high level of effort will result in the successful performance of some task (if i put in the effort, can i finish my project?) Self-efficacy belief that a person has the capabilities needed to execute the behaviours required for success in a particular task.