Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Expectancy Theory, Job Performance, Buzzword

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

Document Summary

Moivaion: set of energeic forces that originate within and outside an employee that iniiates work-related efort and determines its direcion, intensity, and persistence. Direcion of efort what an employee does. Intensity of efort how hard employee works. Persistence of efort for how long employee works (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Engaged employees invest themselves in their jobs and bring a lot of energy to their work. Theories atempt to summarize key factors that foster high moivaion: expectancy theory, goal-seing theory, equity theory, psychological empowerment. Expectancy theory: describes how a person decides to behave. He/she selects 1 behaviour over others based on the expected result of the selected behaviour. Explains how individuals make decisions to achieve end they value. February 1, 2016: doesn"t explain what moivates individuals, why 1 person picks 1 behaviour over another. 3 important beliefs: expectancy: belief that one"s eforts will result in obtaining desired.