ADMS 2400 Lecture 5: Motivation
6 Dec 2015
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Motivation- a set of energetic forces that originates within and outside an employee and determines the direction, intensity and persistence of an employee"s work effort. Expectancy theory the cognitive process that employees go through to make choices among different voluntary responses. Employee behaviour is directed toward pleasure and away from pain or, more generally, toward certain outcomes and away from others. Theory suggests that our choices depend on three specific beliefs are based in past learning that our and experience: expectancy, instrumentality and valence. Expectancy- represents the belief that exerting a high level of effort will result in the successful performance of some task. The amount of effort will result in a specific level of performance (abbreviated e p) Self-efficacy- the belief that a person has the capabilities needed to execute the behaviours required for task success. (think of it as a kind of self-confidence or a task-specific version of self- esteem. )
