Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Goal Setting

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Sarah Ross

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Motivation: motivation: a set of energetic forces that determine the direction, Expectancy theory: expectancy theory: a theory that describes the cognitive process. High levels of persistence and intensity in work effort. Engaged employees completely invest themselves in their jobs. Only 30% of employees identify as engaged employees go through to make choices among different voluntary responses: argues that employee behaviour is directed towards pleasure, our choices depend on 3 specific beliefs in our past learning and experience: Self-efficacy: the belief that a person has the capabilities needed to perform the behaviours required on some task. When employees consider efficacy levels they consider past accomplishments, vicarious experiences, emotional cues and verbal persuasion. Instrumentality: instrumentality: the belief that successful performance will result in some outcome or outcomes, probability (0-1 chance, research study. Only 35% of employees considered performance as the key. Driver in their pay: especially difficult during economic downturn. Maslow states that needs are arranged in a hierarchy of relative prepotency.