DIRECTING Flashcards
- Motivation,
- Communication, and
- Leadership. It deals with relationship of managers and non-managers
- It comes from the Latin word “movere” which means to move
Directing
is the concept we use when we describe the forces acting on or within an individual to initiate and direct behavior
Motivation
He designed a system whereby an employee was compensated according to individual production
Frederick taylor
One of the most important theories of motivation is the hierarchy of needs theory postulated by industrial psychologists
Abraham w. Maslow
An individual ambition to do better things or achieve something is due to a very specific motive or need
-Achievement theory
-Proposed by David McClelland
views human beings as inherently lazy and hence must be motivated by force
Theory X (traditional organization)
contends that external force or punishment is not the best way to motivate individuals because they are capable of exercising self direction and self control
Theory Y (modern organization)
- This theory states that the inducements provided by the organization must be kept in equilibrium with the contributions made by the employees.
- They make social comparisons not only by what they get but also by what they see or believe others are getting.
- This need is not something “inborn” but it can be acquired through training and teaching the trainees to think and behave in terms of achievement
Bernard-Simons Theory of equilibrium
This theory is based on the premise that an individual assigns to the outcome of each outcomes and order of preferences among the alternative courses of action
Vrooms Preference-Expectancy theory
-The reward given for good performance.
-When performance is high, an employee will get a pay increase
Reinforcement theory
He contends that as people grow (psychologically) and mature they strive toward the highest level of need in Maslow’s need hierarchy: self-actualization.
- That is to become everything that one is capable of becoming.
-Maturity theory
- Chris Argyrie
-This involves redesigning jobs so that related activities are
added to those currently being
performed. It is the process of allowing individual workers to determine their own working place to serve as their own inspectors by giving them responsibility for quality control, to correct their own mistakes, to be responsible for their own machine set-up and repair, and to attain choice of method
- This method motivates the individual by offering challenge, interest, and meaning.
Job enlargement
A modern and a more permanent approach to motivation is through job enrichment. This involves putting meaning into jobs. In other words, it is putting Herzberg’s two-factor theory into effect by building motivators into the job. These motivators include achievement,
growth, responsibility,
advancement, and recognition.
Job enrichment
- It is defined as the transfer of information that is meaningful to those involved.
- In general, the transmittal of understanding.
- It is an interpersonal process of sending and receiving of symbols with messages attached to them
- is defined as the transfer of information that is meaningful to those involved-in general, the transmittal of understanding
Communication
- Information flows down through formal channels in the organization.
- Superiors and subordinates showed
great differences in their thinking as to what constitutes a subordinate’s job.
Formal n downward communication
can be defined as a means of communication that is normally controlled by the managers in an organization. It has been called the main line of the organization’s operational communication. This is intended the reports, records, and other forms that flow up and down in the system
Formal communication
- arises out of all those channels that fall outside the formal channels and it is also known as grapevine. It is established around the societal affiliation of members of the organization. Informal communication does not follow authority lines as in the case of formal communication
Informal communication
Group communication refers to communication between 3 or more individuals Small group communication includes number from 3 to about 20 people, and large group communication includes numbers larger than that (1.e., a lecture hall of 300 students or a theatrical production with an audience of 3,000)
Communication between groups
Communication between a minimum of two-parties in which meaningful exchange is intended with the sender trying to affect a response from a person or group The message may be received by the person for whom it was intended or by people for whom it was not intended, or both. The message may be distorted during transmission so that the sender’s intentions are not perceived by the recipient and the intended effect is not achieved
Interpersonal communication