Employee Motivation Flashcards
A willingness to expend energy to achieve a goal or reward
Motivation
Level of commitment, drive, and creativity that your team brings with them to work every day
Employee motivation
Driven by internal emotions like happiness, pride, or satisfaction
Intrinsic motivation
Driven by external influences, such as earning a reward or avoiding punishment
Extrinsic motivation
A relatively brief set of questions sent to employees, typically using an employee engagement platform
Pulse surveys
Allow anonymous input that can be shared any time
HR chatbots
Analyzing which employees are nominated for recognition within the company can provide insight into who is viewed as highly motivated and engaged
Peer-to-peer recognition programs
The basis of this theory is that human beings need to have their most basic needs met before they can get the motivation to achieve those higher goals
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory of motivation
Basic needs have to be met in order for a person to survive
Physiological
These needs help people feel safe
Safety
These needs are for connections
Social
These needs are to feel good about yourself, confident, appreciated, and recognized
Esteem
The top of the pyramid is the need to become your very best self
Self-actualization
A theory developed by psychologist Frederick Hertzberg
Hertzberg’s Two-Factor Theory
Two factors that significantly influence employee engagement and motivation
Motivator factors and hygiene factors
Factors that provide employees with positive motivation to do their best at work every day
Motivator factors
Factors that can make employees feel dissatisfied and demotivated when they’re not present
Hygiene factors
This theory posits that satisfying the three basic psychological needs of employees help encourage intrinsic motivation and high-quality performance
Self-Determination Theory of Motivation
The feeling of being cared for and having a strong sense of belonging
Relatedness
Feeling effective and experiencing growth
Competence
Empowering employees to feel like they’re in charge of their own actions, can make their own choices
Autonomy
Victor Vroom suggests that organizations looking to motivate employees need to ensure that all three factors - expectancy, instrumentality and valence
Expectancy Theory of Motivation
What employees expect from their own efforts
Expectancy
It is about whether the employee’s performance is good enough to achieve the desired result
Instrumentality
How much you value the expected reward
Valence
The theory that is based on the concept that human beings are always looking for meaning in everything that happens to us
Three-dimensional theory of attribution
Three factors in three-dimensional theory of attribution
Locus of control, stability, controllability
Cause of an event is internal or external
Locus of control
Cause is stable over time or something temporary or likely to change
stability
Cause is controllable or uncontrollably
Controllability
Theory that motivates employees to make decisions that are in their broad self-interest
Nudge theory
