ORGS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Goal Setting, Motivation, Bayesian Probability

• School: York University
• Department: Organization Studies
• Course: ORGS 1000
• Professor: Marnie Smith

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Lecture 30 positive/negative feelings that can help task accomplishment: instrumentality. Belief that successful performance will result in attainment of some outcome. Set of subjective probabilities that successful performance will bring set of outcomes: valence. Anticipated value of the outcome associated with successful performance. Can be positive (salary increase, bonuses), negative (disciplinary actions, termination), or 0. Needs grouping or clusters of outcomes viewed as having critical psychological or physiological consequences in general, outcomes are more attractive when they help to satisfy our needs. Extrinsic motivation desire to put forth work effort due to some contingency that depends on task performance. Intrinsic motivation desire to put forth work effort due to the sense that task performance serves as its own reward. Theory that views goals as the primary drivers of the intensity & persistence of effort. Goals objective/aim of an action & typically refer to attaining a specific standard of proficiency, within specified time limit.