ADMS 2400 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Bayesian Probability, Job Performance, Gdal

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 2400
• Professor: Sabrina Deutsch Salamon

Document Summary

Motivation is defined as a set of energetic forces that originates both within and outside an employee, initiates work-related effort, and determines its direction, intensity, and persistence. Motivation is a critical consideration because job performance is largely a function of two factors: motivation and ability. Engagement- a widely used term in contemporary workplaces that has different meanings depending on the context; most often refers to motivation, but it can refer to affective commitment. A theory that describes the cognitive process employees go through to makes choices among different voluntary responses. Expectancy is a subjective probability, ranging from 0 to 1 that a specific amount of effort will result in a specific level of performance (abbreviated e p). Instrumentality is a set of subjective probabilities, each ranging from 0 to 1 that successful performance will bring a set of outcomes (abbreviated p o). Valence reflects the anticipated value of the outcomes associated with performance (abbreviated v).