BUAD309 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Motivation, Social Cognitive Theory, Electronic Body Music

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUAD309
• Professor: Kyle Emich

Document Summary

Motivation: the process of putting your effort towards something. People have a limit to how much effort and energy they have. 1: direction: where you are putting your effort, persistence: how long are you maintaining or putting in effort. They need to fulfill lower level needs before they can fulfill higher ones. After you have your needs met you will interact with others. Maslow"s need theory has received wide recognition but research does not validate this theory. The order of the needs is not always correct. Employees inherently dislike work and must be coerced into performing. Employees can view work as being as natural as rest or play. Implications for managers can be explained using maslow"s framework. Two factors in an organization can cause you to be either satisfied or dissatisfied. People are motivated by things that make a person satisfied. Things that lead people to be satisfied are things like. Herzberg assumed a relationship between satisfaction and productivity.