MGT 475 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Job Satisfaction, Life Satisfaction, Belongingness
Document Summary
The ability to motivate others is a fundamental leadership skill and has strong connections to building cohesive, goal-oriented teams and getting results through others. Variation in work output varies significantly across leaders and followers. Creating highly motivated and satisfied followers depends mostly on others. Motivation - anything that provides direction, intensity, and persistence to behavior. Performance - concerns behaviors directed toward the firm"s mission/goals or the products or services resulting from those behaviors. Differs from effectiveness (ie. making judgements about the adequacy of behavior based on criteria. Job satisfaction - how much one likes a specific kind of job or work activity. Organizational citizenship behaviors - behaviors not directly related to one"s job but are helpful to others at work. Motivational theories are useful in certain situations but not as applicable in others. Leaders who know about different motivational theories are more likely to choose the right theory for a particular follower and situation.
