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What Motivates People to Work?
Chapter Six
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Motivation Motivation can be defined as the process of
arousing, directing, and maintaining behavior toward a goal Arousal: the energy behind our actions Direction: the choice of behavior made Maintenance: an individual’s willingness to
continue to exert effort until a goal is met Motivation is not the same as performance,
but it is an important contributing factor
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Needs-Goal Model of Motivation Drive Reduction Theories
Needs: Physiological or Psychological deficiencies
Drive: action toward the goal (incentive) Incentive: reduces drive of need
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Motive Types Primary Motives:
Unlearned: everyone has these Physiological: hunger, thirst
General (Stimulus) Motives: Unlearned: everyone has these NOT Physiological: curiosity, activity, affection
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Motive Types Secondary Motives:
Learned NOT Physiological
Examples: Need for power Need for achievement Need for affiliation Need for security Need for status
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Work Motivation Content Theories (closely related to needs
model – what motivates) Scientific Management: wage incentives Human Relations: working conditions Maslow: hierarchy of needs Hertberg: two factor theory (used critical
incident methodology) Alderfer: ERG needs (existence, relatedness,
growth)
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Need Hierarchy Theory(popularized by McGregor – Human side of the Enterprise)
Physiological needs: The lowest-order needs, which involve satisfying fundamental biological drives, such as the needs for air, food, water, and shelter (extrinsic)Safety needs: The need to operate in an environment that is physically and psychologically safe and secure, free from threats of harmSocial needs: The need to be affiliative -- that is, to be liked and accepted by othersEsteem needs: The need to achieve success and have others recognize our accomplishmentsSelf-actualization needs: The need to perform at one’s maximum level of creativity and become a valuable asset to one’s organization (intrinsic)
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Need Hierarchy Theory
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Process Theories Lewin and Tolman: expectancy theory Vroom (VIE): valence/expectancy theory Porter/Lawler: extension of VIE model
(performance leads to satisfaction)
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Expectancy Theory (VIE – Vroom,1964)
Expectancy theory claims that people will be motivated to exert effort on the job when they believe that doing so will help them achieve the things they want
Components of motivation: Expectancy: The belief that one’s effort will affect
performance Instrumentality: The belief that one’s performance
will be rewarded Valence: The perceived value of the expected rewards
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Expectancy Theory (Porter/Lawler,1968)
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Expectancy Theory and Mood
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Contemporary Theories Adams: equity theory Homans: exchange theory Kelley: attribution/balance theory Rotter: locus of control Brehm: reactance theory
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Equity TheoryEquity theory proposes that people are motivated to maintain fair, or equitable, relationships between themselves and others, and to avoid those relationships that are unfair, or inequitable
To make judgments of equity, people compare themselves to others by focusing on two variables: Outcomes: What they get out of their jobs
Pay, fringe benefits, prestige Inputs: The contributions they make to their jobs
Time worked, effort exerted, units produced
People make equity judgments by comparing their own outcome/input ratios to the outcome/input ratios of others
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Equity Theory
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Reactions to Inequity
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Goal-Setting Theory (Locke, 1968)
The theory according to which a goal serves as a motivator because it causes people to compare their present capacity to perform with that required to succeed at the goal.
We attain goals to satisfy emotions and desires
There is an inherent purposefulness of behavior (Tolman)
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Goal-Setting Theory (Locke, 1968)
Related Concepts: Goal SettingGoal Setting: The process of setting goals in
a manner that motivates workers to raise their performance
Self-EfficacySelf-Efficacy: One’s belief about being able to perform the task in question
Goal CommitmentGoal Commitment: The extent to which people invest themselves in meeting a goal and determination to reach a goal strengthened by choice, publicness, explicitness
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The Goal-Setting Process
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Effects of Commitment and Difficulty
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Setting Effective Goals
Assign specific goals: People perform at higher levels when asked to meet a specific high-performance goal than when simply asked to “do their best,” or when no goal at all is assigned
Assign difficult but acceptable goals Provide feedback concerning goal
attainment Accepted goals or ‘owned’ goals
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Goal-Setting Effects
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Job Design
Taylor: task design is most important element in Scientific Management (now called job engineering: specialization and standardization)
1950’s: Tom Watson, IBM, popularizes job enlargement and job rotation
1960’s and 1970’s: AT&T utilizes job enrichment with more job autonomy and more job responsibility
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Job Design
Job design is the process of creating jobs that people desire to perform because they are so inherently appealingJob enlargement is the practice of giving employees more tasks to perform at the same level of responsibility and skillJob enrichment is the practice of giving employees more tasks to perform that require higher levels of responsibility and skill
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Job Design (cont.)
The Job Characteristics Model (JCM)
identifies how jobs can be designed to help people feel that they are doing meaningful and valuable work
The Social Information Processing Approach (SIPA) social information influences jobholder’s perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors (satisfaction leads to performance)
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Job Enlargement and Enrichment
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Job Characteristics ModelCore Job Dimensions (Hackman & Oldham, 1976)
Skill varietySkill variety is the extent to which a job requires using different skills and talentsTask identityTask identity is the degree to which a job requires doing a whole task from beginning to endTask significanceTask significance is the amount of impact a job is believed to have on othersAutonomyAutonomy is the extent to which employees have the freedom and discretion to plan, schedule, and carry out their jobs as desiredFeedbackFeedback is the extent to which the job allows people to have information about the effectiveness of their performance
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Job Characteristics ModelOther Components
Experienced meaningfulness of the work: the extent to which a job is considered to be highly important, valuable, and worthwhileExperienced responsibility: the extent to which employees feel as if they have control over their work effortsKnowledge of results: the extent to which employees understand how effectively they have performedGrowth need strength: an individual’s need for personal growth and development (moderating variable)
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The Job Characteristics Model
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Socialtechnical Design Interface among personal, social, and
technological functioning QWLQWL: Quality of work life determined by
overall climate: ‘the way things are done around here’
Volvo projectVolvo project: autonomous work group’s General Food pet food plantGeneral Food pet food plant: small work groups
TodayToday: Self-managed work teams