SMGT 3143 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Job Performance, Job Security
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What is motivation: forces that energize, direct, and sustain behavior, process of arousing, directing, and maintaining behavior toward a goal. Why is motivation important for sport organizations: arousing motivation is critical to achieve a goal, motivation strongly affects job performance, motivating others is the key function of leadership. What is unique about motivation in sport organizations: employees tend to be intrinsically motivated, employees like to engage in sports, sport organizations are supported by many volunteers, their motivation may be different from paid employees. Job security, safe working environment: love needs, colleagues, friends, family, esteem needs, promotion, recognition, self-actualization, challenging tasks, creative work, lower-order includes physiological, safety and security, and love and society, higher-order includes esteem and self-actualization, motivators, higher-order needs. Influence satisfaction: relate to job content, achievement, responsibility, growth, recognition, hygiene factors. Influence dissatisfaction: lower-order needs, relate to job context, relationships, salary, working conditions, security, policies.
