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:

Management by objectives
Productivity enhancement
Performance appraisal
Personal development plan

4 types of extrinsic motivation

1.Integrated: because I am like this 2.Identified: because there is a good reason (utility)
3. Introjected: internal reward (I’m ok) and punishment (guilt)
4. External: reward and punishment

4 leadership behaviours to support autonomy

  1. Highly controlling
  2. Moderately controlling
  3. Moderately autonomy supportive
  4. Autonomy supportive

Points of goal choice and goal striving:

Proactive goal generation
Envisioning the future
Planning
Changing the self and/or the situation

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