BMRT 11009 Lecture Notes - Lecture 41: Edward Thorndike, Achievement Orientation, Job Design
15 Jan 2020
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Suggests that employees can be motivated by goals that are specific and challenging but achievable. Four motivational mechanisms: directs your attention, regulates the effort expended, increases your persistence, fosters use of strategic and action plans. Goal-setting theory (2 of 3: stretch goals are goals some companies adopt that are beyond what they are actually expected to achieve. Division of an organization"s work among its employees. The application of motivational theories to jobs to increase satisfaction and performance. Fitting jobs to people (enlargement or enrichment). Source: from j. richard hackman and greg r. oldham, work redesign, 1e 1980. Suggests that behavior with positive consequences tends to be repeated, whereas behavior with negative consequences tends not to be repeated. Pioneered by b. f. skinner (operant conditioning) and edward thorndike (law of effect). Use of reinforcement theory to change human behavior is called behavior modification. Use of positive consequences to strengthen a particular behavior. Strengthening a behavior by withdrawing something negative.
