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13 Cards in this Set
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Expectancy Theory |
Idea that work effort is directed toward behaviours that people believe will lead to desired outcomes. |
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A-B-C's of Behaviour Modification |
A theory that explains employee behaviour in terms of what happens before (antecedents) the behaviour and the consequences of the behaviour. |
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Social Cognitive Theory |
A theory that states learning and motivation occurs by observing and modelling others as well as by anticipating consequences of our behaviour. |
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Goal Setting |
The process of motivating employees and clarifying their role perceptions by establishing performance objectives. |
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Equity Theory |
A theory explaining how people develop perceptions of fairness in the distribution and exchange of resources. |
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Employee Share Ownership Plans |
Reward systems that encourage employees to buy company shares. |
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Share Options |
Reward systems that give employees the right to purchase company shares at a future date at a predetermined price. |
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Profit-Sharing Plans |
A reward system that pays bonuses to employees on the basis of the previous year's level of corporate profits. |
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Job design |
Assigning tasks to a job, including the interdependency of those tasks with other jobs. |
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Motivator-hygiene theory |
Herzberg's theory stating that employees are primarily motivated by growth and esteem needs, not by lower-level needs. |
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Job Characteristic Model |
A job design model that relates the motivational properties of jobs to specific personal and organizational consequences of those needs. |
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Task Identity |
The degree to which a job requires completion of a whole or an identification piece of work. |
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Self-Leadership |
The process of influencing oneself to establish the self-direction and self-motivation needed to perform a task. |
