Chapter 4 - Motivational Theory Flashcards
Define human resource manager
Coordinates all the activities involved in acquiring,developing,maintaining and terminating employees from an organisations human resources
Define human resource management
The effective management of the formal relationship between the employer and employees
Define employer of choice
Attracts,motivates and holds on to highly talented workers
Define Industrial Democracy or Empowerment
The move towards increasing all the influence of employees in decisions affecting their organisation and jobs
Define Diversity
The differences between employees in an organisation, encompassing characteristics such as race, gender, ethnic group, age
Define Flexible work conditions
Conditions that allow employees to balance worker and family responsibilities more effectively
Define work life balance
About achieving the right amount of time for work and for personal family life
Occupational Health and Safety
The responsibility the employer has to ensure the workplace is safe for employees and that steps are taken to minimise them
Define Job security
The belief that the employees will not lose their jobs
Define motivation
The individual internal processes that directs, energises and sustains a persons behaviour
Define a need
Is a personal requirement
Define Hierarchy of needs
Maslow’s sequence of human needs in order of their importance
Define Motivation-Hygiene theory
Is the idea that satisfaction and dissatisfaction are caused by a separate set of factors
What are the key components of Maslows hierarchy
Physiological Safety/Security Social Self esteem Self actualisation
What do goals need to be in lockes theory
Clear
Specific
Challenging
Not overwhelming
