RSM260H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4-5: Job Satisfaction, Mplayer
4 Dec 2015
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*goal setting theory: goals are motivational when they"re specific, challenging, when organizational members are committed to them, and when feedback about progress toward goal attainment is provided. Goal commitment: the effect of goals on performance is strongest when individuals have high goal commitment. Goal challenge: goal challenge is best when it"s pegged to the competency of individual workers and increased as the particular task is mastered. Self efficacy: a capacity to bring about a desired result. Goal specificity: goals that specify an exact level of achievement for people to accomplish in a set time frame. Maslow"s hierarchy of needs: a five-level hierarchical need theory of motivation that specifies that the lowest-level unsatisfied need has the greatest motivating potential. Physiological needs safety needs belongingness & love needs esteem needs self-actualization needs. Alderfer"s erg theory: a three-level hierarchical need theory of motivation (existence, relatedness, growth) that allows for movement up and down the hierarchy.
