Theories
The theory that both positive and negative reinforcement increase behavior while punishment and extinction decrease behavior.
What is Theory of Operant Conditioning?
The need to set, meet, and exceed goals.
What is Need for achievement?
Rewards used to facilitate or motivate task performance that include pay, promotions, fringe benefits, and job security.
What is Extrinsic Rewards?
The direct consequences of doing the job and the primary cause of satisfaction on the job.
What is Motivators?
A flock of crows is known as a...
What is a murder?
The belief that employees inherently dislike work and need to be constantly monitored and evaluated to ensure that they do what is expected.
What is Theory X?
Job factors that are potential dissatisfiers that relate to physiological, safety, and belongingness needs.
What is Hygiene factors?
The desire, stimulus, or incentive to pursue a particular course of action.
What is Motivation?
The theory that individuals are driven or motivated by three needs: the need for affiliation, the need for power, and the need for achievement.
What is Acquired Needs Theory?
Only two diseases have successfully been eradicated: Smallpox and...
What is Rinderpest?
The study of the incentives and needs that motivate people to perform in a certain way.
What is Content Theory?
The need to seek opportunities for personal aggrandizement (personalized power) or the need to make an impact on and influence others (socialized power).
What is Need for power?
Rewards associated with “doing the job” that include interesting and challenging work, self-direction, etc.
What is Intrinsic Rewards?
The theory that employees expect that high effort should lead to good performance and that good performance, in turn, should lead to reward.
What is Expectancy Theory?
Snakes can help predict...
What is Earthquakes?
The belief that employees are motivated to do their best and to work to their potential.
What is Theory Y?
The need to interact, socialize, and develop friendships.
What is Need for affiliation?
The act of presenting an aversive stimulus in response to an undesired behavior.
What is Punishment?
The act of rewarding a desired behavior.
What is Positive Reinforcement?
____ _______ were originally shown after movies, but are now shown prior.
What is movie trailers?
ERG Theory
What is... The theory that individuals are motivated by three primary needs: existence (basic physical needs), relatedness (connection with others), and growth (personal development)?
Extinction
What is...The idea that a behavior stops because it has ceased to be rewarded or punished?
Self-efficacy
What is... The belief that one has the capabilities to accomplish organizational goals?
Equity Theory
What is.... The theory that people will compare their circumstances with those of similar others and that this behavior motivates them to seek fairness in the way they are rewarded for performance?
The average male gets bored during a shopping trip after _____ minutes.
What is 26 minutes?