Individual motivation
7 important questions on Individual motivation
Why do employees care about justice
- Instrumental reasons: e.g., reduces uncertainty
- Relational reasons: e.g., the idea of being valued
- Moral reasons: e.g., aligns with normative standards of ethical conduct
Why are difficult goals motivating?
- Focus (toward goal relevant activities, ward off distractions)
- Effort (energizing to meet challenge) • Persistence (intensity, not necessarily time spent)
- Discovery of strategies
- Task interest, discovering pleasurable aspects of an activity
- Self-efficacy
Moderators of goal setting - performance relation
- Commitment --> Determined by importance and self-efficacy goal
- Feedback: “revealing progress in relation to goal” --> May lead to adapting goal, increasing effort, or coming up with new strategies
- Task complexity --> The more complex a task, the more variation in solutions. Performance dependent on ability to find appropriate strategies
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Applications of goal setting in organizations:
Productivity enhancement
Performance appraisal
Personal development plan
4 types of extrinsic motivation
3. Introjected: internal reward (I’m ok) and punishment (guilt)
4. External: reward and punishment
4 leadership behaviours to support autonomy
- Highly controlling
- Moderately controlling
- Moderately autonomy supportive
- Autonomy supportive
Points of goal choice and goal striving:
Envisioning the future
Planning
Changing the self and/or the situation
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