Motivating Employees Motivation The willingness to exert high
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Motivating Employees
Motivation - The willingness to exert high levels of effort to reach organizational goals, conditioned by the effort’s ability to satisfy some individual need. Need - an internal state that makes certain outcomes appear attractive
Theories of Motivation
I. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory - there is a hierarchy of 5 human needs: physiological, safety, social, esteem, and self actualization.
1. Physiological needs: food, drink, sexual satisfaction, and other physical requirements.
2. Safety needs: security and protection from physical and emotional harm, as well as assurance that physical needs will continue to be met.
3. Social needs: affection, belongingness, acceptance, and friendship
4. Esteem needs: internal esteem factors such as self respect, autonomy, and achievement and external esteem factors such as status, recognition, and attention.
5. self actualization needs: a person’s need to become what he or she is capable of becoming.
II. Mc. Gregor’s theory X and Y theory X - the assumption that employees dislike work, are lazy, avoid responsibility, and must be coerced to perform.
Theory Y - the assumption that employees are creative, enjoy work, seek responsibility, and can exercise self-direction.
III. Herzberg’s motivationhygiene theory - intrinsic factors are related to job satisfaction and motivation, whereas extrinsic factors are associated with job dissatisfaction.
Motivators achievement recognition work itself responsibility advancement growth
Hygiene factors supervision company policy relationship with supervisor working conditions salary relationship with peers personal life relationship with subordinates status security
IV. Three-needs theory - says three needs (achievement, power, and affiliation)are major motives in work
Need for achievement - the drive to excel, to achieve in relation to a set of standards. And to strive to succeed
Need for power- the need to make others behave in a way that they would not have behaved otherwise.
Need for affiliation - the desire for friendly and close interpersonal relationships
V. Goal setting theory - the proposition that specific goals increase performance and that difficult goals, when accepted, result in higher performance than do easy goals
Self-efficacy - an individual’s belief that he or she is capable of performing a task.
VI. Reinforcement theory - theory that behavior is a function of its consequences.
Reinforcers - any consequence immediately following a response that increases the probability that the behavior will be repeated.
Designing Motivating Jobs
Job design - the way tasks are combined to form complete jobs.
Job scope - the number of different tasks required in a job and the frequency with which those tasks are repeated.
Job enlargement - the horizontal expansion of a job by increasing job scope.
Job enrichment - the vertical expansion of a job by adding planning and evaluating responsibilities.
Job depth - the degree of control employees have over their work.
Job characteristics model - a framework for analyzing and designing jobs. It identifies 5 primary job characteristics, and their impact on workplace outcomes. 1. Skill variety - the degree to which a job requires a variety of activities so that an employee can use a number of different skills and talents.
2. Task identity - the degree to which a job requires completion of a whole and identifiable piece of work 3. Task significance - the degree to which a job has a substantial impact on the lives or work of other people.
4. Autonomy - the degree to which a job provides substantial freedom, independence, and discretion to the individual in scheduling the work and determining the procedures to be used in carrying it out
5. Feedback - the degree to which carrying out work activities required by a job results in the individual’s obtaining direct and clear information about the effectiveness of his performance.
Equity theory - theory that an employee compares his job’s inputsoutcomes ration with that of relevant others and then corrects any inequity.
Referents - the persons, systems, or selves against which individuals compare themselves to assess equity.
Expectancy theory - theory that an individual tends to act in a certain way based on the expectation that the act will be followed by a given outcome and on the attractiveness of that outcome to the individual
A. expectancy or effort-performance linkage - the probability perceived by the individual that exerting a given amount of effort will lead to a certain level of performance.
B. instrumentality or performancereward linkage - the degree to which the individual believes that performing at a particular level is instrumental in attaining the desired outcome.
C. valence or attractiveness of reward - the importance that the individual places on the potential outcome or reward that can be achieved on the job.
Current Issues in Motivation compressed workweek - employees work longer hours per day but fewer days per week.
Flexible work hours(flextime) employees are required to work a certain number of hours per week but are free, within limits, to vary the hours of work.
Job sharing - the practice of having two or more people split a full-time job.
Telecommuting - a job approach in which employees work at home and are linked to the workplace by computer and modem.
Pay-for-performance programs compensation plans that pay employees on the basis of some performance measure.
Open-book management - a motivational approach in which an organization’s financial statements are shared with all employees.
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