PSYC 3310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Distributive Justice, Procedural Justice, Job Performance
11 May 2019
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Internal state that induces people to engage in particular behaviors. Processes far removed from the actual behavior. View motivation as deriving from people"s desires for things. Behavior determined by five needs in order. Hygiene factors rewards and social factors. Theory says only motivator factors can motivate work performance. Force = exp x (valence x instrumentality) Expectancy: self-confidence person can perform a behavior. Instrumentality: perception that behavior will result in reward. Valence: value of rewards to the person. Multiplicative implies all factors must be high. Self-confidence in task performance, which increases motivation (bandura, 1982) Feeling that one is or is not capable in some specific domain of life. Study showing effects on seasickness (eden & zuk, 1995) Training session during which some navy cadets were told they were unlikely to get sick at sea. People are motivated to achieve fairness in their dealings (adams, 1965) Compare their perceived ratio (outcomes/inputs) to those around them.
