MGT-330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Belongingness, Job Security, Job Performance

• School: University of Tampa
• Department: Management
• Course: MGT-330
• Professor: Ashley Salaiz

Document Summary

Motivation is a set of forces that initiates, directs, and makes people persist in their efforts to accomplish a goal. Initiation: how much effort to put forth in the job. Persistence: how long the effort will be put forth. Motivation comes from needs. (unmet needs and unsatisfied needs lead to tension energy. Mcclelland"s learned needs theory: challenging tasks, freedom to try new ideas. Start at physiological, higher order needs do not become activated until the current level is fulfilled. Enough to motivate: collapsed version of maslow"s hierarchy, collapses 5 categories into 3: existence, relatedness, and growth needs, half of esteem and self-actualization are. Mcclelland"s learned theory of needs: power, achievement, & affiliation. Relatedness: social and half of esteem needs are, physiological and safety are existence. An individual"s specific needs are acquired over time and are shaped by one"s life experience. Most of these needs can be classified as a need for: Job performance = motivation x ability x situation.