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33 Cards in this Set
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What type of Motivation Theories:
explain how people select behavioral actions to meet their needs and determine whether their choices were successful |
Process Theories
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Goal setting Theory
Equity theory Expectancy theory |
Process theories
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Who described the Goal-Setting Theory
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Edwin Locke
Gary Latham |
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Which type of Process Theory:
says managers can enhance performance by setting specific, challenging goals, and then helping people track their progress by giving timely feedback |
Goal-setting theory
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What are 4 components of the Goal-Setting Theory (process theory of motivation)
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Goal specificity
Goal difficulty Goal Acceptance Feedback |
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What term by what person is related to the 'goal acceptance' component of Goal-Setting Theory?
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Acceptance View of Authority
Chester Barnard |
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The 'feedback' component of the Goal-Setting Theory can mean managerial feeback but also what?
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Self feedback (which is growing increasingly popular)
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Which company used Goal-Setting theory by providing the specific goal of sledge hammering a car every day the production line didn't stop?
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Advanced Circuits (Ron Huston)
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what principle of GOal-setting theory?
the idea that the single most important factor that can boost motivation, positive emotions, and perceptions during a workday is making progress toward meaningful goals |
Making Progress Principle
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Which (Process) theory on motivation focuses on how individual's perceptions of how fairly they are treated compared with others?
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Equity Theory
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Who developed the Equity Theory on Motivation (process theory)
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J. Stacy Adams
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How do people evaluate equity?
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ratio of inputs to outcomes
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When does a state of 'equity' exist?
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Whenever the ratio of one person's outcomes to inputs equals the ratio of another's outcomes to inputs
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When does inequity occur?
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When the input-to-outcome ratios are out of balance (new unexperienced employee gets same salary as person with high level of education or experience)
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What might employees on the side of inequity of making more than others doing to same stuff do?
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feel they need to solve the inequity by working harder or getting more education
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Does the human brain dislike inequity even when it benefits us?
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yes
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What are the 4 most common methods for reducing a perceived inequity?
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Change work effort
Change Outcomes Change perceptions Leave the job |
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What inequity happened at Hostess Inc.
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Executives tried to give themselves raises before going bankrupt. (Unions and employees got bad)
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Which particular businesses are working to free up money by hiring and rewarded "star performers" rejecting the traditional practice of paying partners relatively similar amounts
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Law firms
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what motivation theory suggets that motivation depends on individual's expecctations about their ability to perform tasks and recieve desired rewards
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Expectancy Theory
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Expectancy theory is associated with the work of who?
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Victor Vroom
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What motivation theory did Victor Vroom come up with?
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Expectancy theory
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expectancy theory is concerned not with identifying types of needs, but with the _______ that individuals use to achieve rewards.
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thinking process
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What three things is the Expectancy theory based on in an individual?
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their effort, performance, desirability of outcomes associated with high performance
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_____ (expectancy theory) involves determing whether putting effort into a task will lead to high performance.
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E-P expectancy
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What must the employee have for the E-P expectancy to be high?
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ability
previous experience necessary equipment tools opportunity |
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(expectancy theory) ______ involves determining whether successful performance will lead to the desired outcome or reward.
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P-O Expectancy
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if the _____ is high, the person will be more highly motivated. if the expectancy is that high performance will not lead to desired outcome, then the person is not motivated
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P-O expectancy
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the value of outcomes, or attraction to outcomes for the individual |
valence
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What are the two concepts in the expectancy theory? (VIctor Vroom)
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E-P epectancy
P-O expectancy |
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what is the top reason people leave their job?
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don't feel appreciated
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idea that the single most important factor that can boost motivation, positive emotions, and perceptions during a workday is making progress toward meaningful goals |
Making progress principle
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the value of outcomes (rewards) to an individual |
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