Exam 2 Review Flashcards
What is motivation?
the processes that account for an individual’s intensity, direction, and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal.
What are the elements of motivation?
- Intensity (how hard you try)
- Direction (is your intent helpful)
- Persistence (how long can you maintain it)
What are the levels of Maslows Hierarchy of needs?
- Psychological needs
- safety needs
- Belongingness and love needs
- esteem needs
- self-actualization needs
What is the self efficacy theory?
an individual’s belief that he or she is capable of performing the task.
What is the pygmalion effect?
Believing in something can make it true.
What is reinforcement theory?
behavior is a function of its consequences. Rewards or punishments should be immediate and linked to performance.
What is goal theory?
goals tell an employee what needs to be done and how much effort is needed.
What does evidence suggest about goals?
- specific goals increase performance
2. difficult goals when accepted result in higher performance than do easy goals
What is expectency theory?
a tendency to act in a certain way depends on whether we expect the act will be followed by a specific outcome & whether we find that outcome attractive
What are the three relationships in expectancy theory?
- Effort-performance relationship
- Performance-reward relationship
- Rewards-personal goals relationship
how can jobs be more prosocially motivating?
- connect employees with beneficiaries of their work
2. meet the beneficiaries first hand
What is telecommuting?
Employees who do their work at home at least two days a week through virtual devices linked to the employer’s office.
What is piece-rate pay?
A pure piece-rate plan provides no base salary and pays the employee only for what he or she produces.
what is merit based pay
Allows employers to differentiate pay based on performance
What are the limitations of piece-rate pay?
- not a feasible approach for many jobs
2. the main concern is financial risk
what are the limitations of merit-based pay
- Based on annual performance appraisals
- Merit pool fluctuates
- Union resistance
What is an example of intrinsic reward?
employee recognition programs.
what is an example of extrinsic reward?
employee cokmpensation systems
What are the five job characterics model?
- skill variety
- task identity
- task significance
- autonmy
- feedback
what characteristics make someone more likely to work from home?
people with more education are more likely to work from home
What is the temporary groups punctuated equilibrium model?
- Their first meeting sets the group’s direction
- The first phase of group activity is one of inertia and thus slower progress
- A transition takes place exactly when the group has used up half its allotted time
- This transition initiates major changes
- A second phase of inertia follows the transition
- The group’s last meeting is characterized by markedly accelerated activity
What is ingroup favoritism?
occurs when we see members of our ingroup as better than other people and people not in our group as all the same.
What is outgroup?
Whenever there is an ingroup, there is by necessity an outgroup, which is sometimes everyone else, but is usually an identified group known by the ingroup’s members. When there are ingroups and outgroups, there is often animosity between them.
what is role expecatation?
how others believe one should act in a given situation.
What is an example of role expecation?
in your job you might be expected to be honest,, fair and responsible.
What is role conflict?
situation in which an individual faces divergent role expectations. Playing soccer on monday night team goes out for drinks
what is role perception
one’s perception of how to act in a given situation.
what is norms
Acceptable standards of behavior within a group that are shared by the group’s members.