PSYC 361 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Goal Orientation, Internal Standard, Job Performance
20 Apr 2017
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This is the foundation of all training programs. Cognitive: acquisition, organization, and application of knowledge. Skill-based: development of technical, procedural, or motor skills. Affective: changes in attitude, motivations, goals, and/or values. Rationale for training: training increases probability of learning, and learning increases the probability of better job performance. Trainee characteristics that influence learning during training: readiness - extent to which trainees possess characteristics necessary to successfully learn and transfer capabilities from training to the job. Readiness characteristics g , experience, interest, attitudes. Goal orientation - dispositional tendency; the manner by which individuals are motivated to succeed on learning and performance tasks. Performance orientation - orientation in which success is evaluated on basis of an objective, external standard of achievement: ex. doing better than others, completing 90% of objectives. Mastery orientation - orientation in which success is evaluated on basis of a subjective, internal standard of achievement: ex. mastering a topic area, developing new strategies.
