Key Terms
Expectancy, Instrumentality, and Valence are all part of this key term
What is Expectancy Theory
Professor Schlachter has you playing Jeopardy today. He's offering extra credit. You think this is a pretty good way to get students to study and the idea of extra credit sounds fair. However, at the end of this, Professor Schlachter breaks his promise - and instead gives the extra credit to his favorite students. In this situation, which kind of justice was violated: Procedural, Distributive, or Interactional?
What is Distributive Justice
The term of the construct that describes An affective or emotional response toward various facets of your job, such as pay, working conditions, or relationships with coworkers
What is Job satisfaction?
Professor Schlachter has you playing Jeopardy today. He's offering extra credit. You like extra credit and want it. It's not hard to play this game with your group. You are confident that if your team wins, Professor Schlachter will give you the extra credit because he isn't a liar. Given the way I've written this, it's clear that you're evaluating your motivation using ______ and have decided to participate today.
What is the Expectancy Theory of Motivation
Pokemon, Muppet, or Neither: Rowlf
One’s opinion or belief about one’s self and self-worth
What is Self-Esteem?
I wonder what the population of Baltimore is. I bet it's about 800,000 people. If you considered my 800,000 guess in what you think it is, we could say that you are being affected by a bias. Is that bias: Determination Bias; Anchoring Bias; Relation Bias; or Consistence Bias
What is Anchoring Bias?
True or False: In Azjen's Theory of Planned Behavior, Intention always guarantees behavior
Professor Schlachter has you playing Jeopardy today. He's giving extra credit. However, you don't really care about the extra credit, rather, you just want to play because this sounds kind of fun. Given the way I've written this, it's clear that you're motivated by your _____ and have decided to participate today.
What is Intrinsic Motivation?
Pokemon, Muppet, or Neither: Probopass
The extent to which the job enables an individual to experience freedom, independence, and discretion in both scheduling and determining the procedures used in completing the job
What is Job Autonomy?
Joe takes one of my tests. Joe gets a "F" on the test. When his friend, Mark, asks Joe why he got an "F", Joe responds that "The professor doesn't like him", "The professor graded too hard", and "Venus is in Retrograde". What might we say about Joe's locus of control?
What is Joe has a low internal locus of control or a high external locus of control?
True or False: Studies have definitively shown that the relationship between Job Satisfaction and performance is somewhere between 70% and 90%
What is False (Somewhere between 0 and 30%!)
Professor Schlachter has you playing Jeopardy today. He's giving extra credit. However, you don't really care about the extra credit, because you just got fired from your job last week. You're not sure how you're going to pay your rent this month. Therefore you're not really paying attention to this. What motivational theory covered in class would best explain your lack of wanting to self-actualize here?
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Pokemon, Muppet, or Neither: Finstar
What is Neither (Finneon would be the closest Pokemon here, combined with Staryu)
The ability to perceive and express emotion, assimilate emotion in thought, understand and reason with emotion, and regulate emotion
What is Emotional Intelligence?
True or False: There are only a couple predictors of employee engagement and only a couple outcomes of employee engagement
Professor Schlachter has you playing Jeopardy today. He's giving extra credit. You're interested in the extra credit and this sounds fun. However, your teammates seem uninterested. You're starting to get annoyed that if your team wins, they get the same amount of extra credit as you. Why should you try? You start using less effort. Given the way I've written this, the motivational theory of _____ best explains this phenomenon.
What is Equity Theory?
Pokemon, Muppet, or Neither: Magnezone
What is Pokemon (Magnemite - Magneton - Magnezone)?
Represents an individual’s capacity for constructive thinking, reasoning, and problem solving.
What is Intelligence?
Kahn (1990) observed engagement after going on vacation and being part of this kind of class.
What is SCUBA class?
In Azjen's Theory of Planned Behavior, ____ reflect an individual’s perception of social pressures to perform or not to perform the behaviour. The assumption is that individuals are more likely to undertake the behaviour that is regarded as desirable by significant others.
The term for humans having Limited/Unreliable Information Regarding Alternatives, the Limited Capacity to Evaluate and Process All Available Information, and Only A Limited Amount of Time to make a Decision
What is Bounded Rationality?
Pokemon, Muppet, or Neither: Dr. Teeth
What is Muppet?