Motivating Employees
Completion requirements
Read this resource to understand motivation in terms of the P-O-L-C framework. You will explore needs, goal-setting, and process-based theories, which consider the mental process of the employee as key to understanding their motivation.
Process-Based Theories
EXERCISES
- Your manager tells you that the best way of ensuring fairness in reward distribution is to keep the pay a secret. How would you respond to this assertion?
- What are the distinctions among procedural, interactional, and distributive justice? List ways in which you could increase each of these justice perceptions.
- Using an example from your own experience in school or at work, explain the concepts of expectancy, instrumentality, and valence.
- Some practitioners and researchers consider OB Mod as unethical because it may be viewed as employee manipulation. What would be your reaction to this criticism?
- Consider a job you held in the past. Analyze the job using the framework of job characteristics model.
- If a manager tells you to "sell as much as you can," is this goal likely to be effective? Why or why not?