Potpourri
Fulfill a type of unique needs based on internal factors and become positively motivated.
What are motivator factors and intrinsic needs?
This content theory proposed by Clayton Alderfer suggests that there are three groups of core needs: existence, relatedness, and growth.
What is the ERG Theory?
What is self-actualization?
What is the Equity Theory?
This unique method was used by David McClelland to assess individuals' dominant needs.
What is the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)?
What are trait and state?
Who is Abraham Maslow?
These motivational theories hold the view that the mental processes of employees are the key to understanding employee motivation.
What are process theories?
Who is Victor Vroom?
One might take action because of physiological needs they must fulfill, because of acquired psychological needs they want to fulfill, or because of highly personal psychological reasons such curiosity and affection.
What are primary motives, secondary motives, and general motives?
Content theories argue that these motivate people's actions.
What are needs?
According to Bourne, "a set of favorable or unfavorable feelings and emotions with which employees view their work."
What is job satisfaction?
This theory proposed by Ivan Pavlov suggests that behavior is a function of its outcomes and that four interventions can be used to change employee behavior: positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, punishment, and extinction.
What is Reinforcement Theory?
What is empowerment?
The word for individuals with relatively low secondary need and the word for individuals with relatively high secondary need both start with the letter "a."
What are avoidance and approach?
This theory proposed by David McClelland suggests that all individuals have a need for achievement, a need for affiliation, and a need for power, and that all individuals are motivated by varying proportions of these needs.
What is the Acquired-Needs Theory (or Theory of Needs)?
What is job enlargement?
This theory developed by J. Richard Hackman and Greg Oldham proposed that every job has five core characteristics: skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, and feedback.
What is the Job Characteristics Theory (JCT)?
The acronym SMART refers to these five criteria that can be used to guide goal setting. SMART goals are effective when employees receive feedback, when employees have the skills necessary to achieve them, and when employees are committed to achieving them.
What are Specific, Measurable, Aggressive, Realistic, and Time-Bound?
Neglect a type of common needs based on external factors and become more dissatisfied.
What are hygiene factors and extrinsic needs?
The Two-Factor Theory, created by this man, states that the fulfillment of certain factors, known as motivators, increases satisfaction while the neglect of other factors, known as hygiene factors, decreases satisfaction.
Who is Frederick Herzberg?
This is a job redesign technique that allows for increased employee autonomy, efficiency, and performance.
What is job enrichment?
Management by Objectives (MBO) is an approach used in organizations to implement this theory by E. Locke and G. Latham that has shown that setting difficult, specific goals can lead to substantial performance improvements. MBO ensures that individual goals align with organizational goals.
What is Goal-Setting Theory?