ADMS 2400 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Goal Setting, Ingmar Bergman, Stress Management

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 2400
• Professor: Len Karakowsky

Document Summary

Motivation is a set of energetic forces that determine the direction, intensity and persistence of an employees work effort. Expectancy theory is a theory that describes the cognitive process employees go through to make choices among different voluntary responses. Formally, expectancy is a subjective probability (e. g. 50%, or . 5) assigned to the chances that a specified amount of effort (e. g. Formally, expectancy is a subjective probability (e. g. 50%, or . 5) assigned to the chances that a specified amount of effort (e. g. 20 hours" study) will result in a specific level of performance (e. g. getting a b grade in exam). Self-efficacy is the belief that a person has the capabilities needed to perform the behaviours required on some task. All 5 will affect how well we analyse task requirements as employees, and how we assess our available resources (personal and situational). All will come together to generate our sense of self efficacy.