BU288 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Distributive Justice, Self-Determination, Equity Theory
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Locke and latham"s goal setting theory: premise is goals are motivators of human action, theory lays out how goals are translated into motivation. How do goals affect behaviours: direct attention to a particular task, facilitate strategy development, mobilize on task effort, encourage task persistence. Equity = acceptable ratio of inputs to outputs: my outcomes/my inputs = others outcomes/others inputs. People are motivated to align their ratios with some standard. Responses to inequality: cognitive responses, emotional responses, behavioural responses. Change: change your inputs, change who you compare yourself to, re examine and adjust perceptions, re examine or rationalize whether we value the outcome. Managers can clear a lot of these problems up by: ensuring fairness, giving clear goals and regular accurate feedback so that workers have unbiased equity perceptions. Distributive justice is perceived fair ness defined in terms of the outcomes people receive in social relationships. Procedural justice is perceived fairness of the way/process allocation decisions are made.
