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Title: MOTIVATION THE MOTIVATIONAL PROCESS MODEL OF MOTIVATION A


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MOTIVATION
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THE MOTIVATIONAL PROCESS MODEL OF MOTIVATION
  • A managers job is to identify employees drives
    and needs and to channel their behavior, to
    motivate them, toward task performance.
  • Motivation has a direct relationship with
    Performance and employees Ability.
  • Thus we can consider Potential Performance (P) as
    a product of Ability (A) and Motivation (M).

  • P A M.
  • Results occur when motivated employees are
    provided with opportunity (Such as training) to
    perform and the Resources (such as Proper tools)
    to do so.
  • The presence of goals and awareness of incentives
    to satisfy ones needs are also powerful
    motivational factors leading to the release of
    effort.
  • When an employee is productive and the
    organization takes note of it, Rewards will be
    distributed.
  • It should be apparent, therefore, that an
    important starting point lies in understanding of
    employee needs.

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Environment
Opportunity
Needs and drives
Tension
Effort
Performance
Rewards
Ability
Goals and incentives
Need satisfaction
  • If those rewards are appropriate in nature,
    timing and distribution, the employees original
    needs and derives are satisfied. At that time new
    needs may emerge and the cycle will begin again.
  • The above Model of Motivation attempts to help
    managers understand how employees internal needs
    affect their subsequent behaviors.

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MOTIVATIONAL DRIVES
  • People tend to develop certain motivational
    drives as a product of cultural environment in
    which they live, and these drives effect the way
    people view their jobs and approach their lives.
  • Peoples motivational drives reflect elements of
    Culture in which they grow up their family,
    school, religion and books.
  • In most nations, one or two of the motivational
    patterns tend to be strong among the workers
    because they have grown up with similar
    backgrounds.

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  • McClelland's research focused on the following
    three drives
  • Achievement A drive to accomplish objectives
    and get ahead
  • Affiliation A drive to relate people
    effectively
  • Power A drive to influence people
    and situations

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Achievement Motivation
  • Achievement motivation is a drive some people
    have to pursue and attain goals.
  • An individual with this drive wishes to achieve
    objectives and advance up to ladder of success.
    Accomplishment is seen as important primarily
    for its own sake, not just for the rewards that
    accompany it.
  • A number of Characteristics define
    Achievement-oriented employees. They work harder
    when they perceive that
  • - When they will receive personal credit
    for their effort,
  • - When there is only moderate risk of
    failure ,
  • - When drive for achievement
  • - Take responsibility for
    their actions and results,
  • - Control their destiny,
    seek regular feedback, and
    enjoy being part of a winning achievement
    through individual or
    collective effort.
  • Managers with strong need for Affiliation may
    have difficulty being
  • effective managers

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Affiliation Motivation
  • Affiliation motivation is a drive to relate to
    people on a social basis.
  • Comparisons of Achievement-motivated employees
    with Affiliation-motivated employees
  • Achievement-oriented people work harder when
    their supervisors provide detailed evaluations of
    their work behavior. Whereas people with
    Affiliation motives work better when they are
    complemented for their favorable attitudes and
    cooperation.
  • Achievement-motivated people select assistants
    who are technically capable, with little regard
    for personal feelings about them. Whereas
    Affiliation-motivated tend to select friends to
    surround them. They receive inner satisfactions
    from being with friends, and they want the job
    freedom to develop those relationship.
  • Managers with strong needs for Affiliation may
    have difficulty being effective managers.
  • Affiliation-oriented managers may have difficulty
    assigning challenging tasks, directing work
    activities, and monitoring work effectiveness.

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Power Motivation
  • Power Motivation is a drive to influence people
    and change situations.
  • Power motivated people wish to create and impact
    on their organizations and are willing to take
    risk to do so. Once this power is obtained, it
    may used either constructively or destructively.
  • Power-motivated people make excellent Managers if
    their drives are for institutional power instead
    of personal power.
  • Institutional power is the need to influence
    others behavior for the good of the whole
    organization. People seek power through
    legitimate means, rise to leadership positions
    through successful performance, and therefore are
    accepted by others.
  • If an employees derives are toward Personal
    power, that person tends to be unsuccessful
    organizational Leader.

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Managerial Application of the Drives
  • Knowledge of the differences among the three
    Motivational Drives requires Managers to
    understand the work attitudes of each employee.
  • Managers have to deal with employees differently
    according to their strongest Motivational Drives
    that they identify in each employee in order to
    communicates with each employee according to
    their particular personal needs.

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HUMAN NEEDS
  • There are several ways to classify Human needs.
  • 1. Basic Physical needs called primary needs,
  • Physical needs include food, water, sleep, air
    and reasonable comfortable temperatures.
  • Physical needs are, therefore, virtually
    universal, but they vary in intensity from
    one person to another. (e.g. a child needs much
    more sleep than an older person.
  • 2. Social and Psychological needs, called
    secondary needs.
  • Secondary needs are more vague because they
    represent needs of the mind and spirit
    rather than of the physical body.
  • Many Secondary needs are developed as
    people mature. (e.g. self-esteem, sense of
    duty, competitiveness, self assertion and to
    given, belonging and receiving affection.
  • Secondary needs complicate the
    motivational efforts of Managers. Nearly any
    action that management takes will affect
    secondary needs.
  • Therefore, managerial planning should
    consider the effect of any proposed action
    on the secondary needs of employees.

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The seven key conclusions about Secondary needs.
  • They are strongly conditioned by experience
  • Vary in type and intensity among people
  • Are subject to change across time within any
    individual
  • Can not usually be isolated, but rather, work
    in combination and influence one another
  • Are often hidden from conscious recognition
  • Are vague feelings as opposed to specific
    physical needs
  • Influence behavior
  • The theories of Maslow, Herzberg and Alderfer
    each build on the
  • distinction between Primary and secondary needs.
    Also there are
  • some similarities as well as differences among
    the three approaches.
  • Despite the limitations of these theories, they
    help create an important
  • basis for the more advanced Motivational Models.

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MASLOW'S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS
  • According to Maslow, human needs are not of
    equal strength, and they emerge in a definite
    sequence.
  • As the primary needs become reasonable well
    satisfied, a person places more emphasis on the
    secondary needs.
  • Maslows hierarchy of needs focuses attention on
    five levels. (Shown on the Table

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Model of Maslows hierarchy of Needs.
5. Self-actualization and Fulfillment needs
HIGHER ORDER NEEDS
4. Esteem and status needs
3. Belonging and Social needs.
2. Safety and Security needs.
LOWER ORDER NEEDS
1. Physiological needs.
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MOSLOW HIERARCHY OF NEEDS
  • Lower Order Needs (First two levels of Primary
    needs)
  • First level needs involve Basic Survival needs
    and include Physiological needs for food, air,
    water and sleep.
  • The second need level is Bodily safety (such as
    Freedom from a dangerous work environment) and
    Economic security (such as a no-layoff guarantee
    or a comfortable retirement plan).
  • Higher Order needs
  • The third level in the hierarchy concerns love,
    belonging, and social involvement at work
    (friendships and compatible associates).
  • The fourth level include those for esteem and
    status, including one's feelings of self-worth
    and of competence. The feeling of competence ,
    which derives from the assurance of others,
    provides status.
  • The Fifth level need is self-actualization, which
    means becoming all that one is capable of
    becoming, using ones skills to the fullest, and
    stretching talent to the maximum.

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Interpreting MOSLOWs Hierarchy of Needs
  • Maslows Need-hierarchy model essentially says
    that people have needs
  • they wish to satisfy and that gratified needs are
    not as strong motivating as
  • unmet needs.
  • A fully satisfied need will not be a strong
    motivator.
  • Employees are more enthusiastically motivated by
    what they are currently seeking then by receiving
    more of what they already have.
  • Some useful ideas for helping Managers to think
    about motivating their employees.
  • - Identify and accept
    employees needs
  • - Recognize that needs may
    differ among employees
  • - Offer satisfaction for
    the particular needs currently unmet.
  • - Realize that giving more
    of the same reward (especially one
    which satisfies lower order needs) may have a
    diminishing impact on
    motivation.

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Interpreting MOSLOWs Hierarchy of Needs
  • Maslow Model has many limitations, and it has
    been sharply criticized.
  • - From a philosophical framework , it has
    been difficult to study and has not been
    fully verified.
  • From a practical perspective , it is not easy to
    provide opportunity for self-actualization to all
    employees.
  • Research has not supported that presence of all
    five need levels as unique nor has the five-step
    progression from lowest to highest need levels
    been established.
  • There is some evidence that unless the two
    lower-order needs (i.e Physiological
  • and Security needs) are basically satisfied,
    employees will not be greatly
  • concerned with higher order needs.

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HERZBERS TWO-FACTOR MODEL
  • Herzberg developed the Motivation model by asking
    his subject to describe
  • when they felt especially good about their jobs
    and a time when they felt especially bad about
    their jobs.
  • Herzberg found that employees named different
    types of conditions that produced good and bad
    feelings.
  • That is if a feeling of achievement led to a good
    feeling, the lack of achievement was rarely given
    as cause for bad feelings. Instead some other
    factor, such as company policy, was given was
    given as a bad feelings.

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Hertzberg's two-factor model
Work itself Achievement Possibility of
growth Responsibility Advancement Recognition
Motivational Factors
Maintenance Factors
Status Relations with supervisors Peer
relations Relations with subordinates Quality of
supervision Company policy And
administration Job security Working
conditions Pay
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HERZBERS TWO-FACTOR MODEL
  • MOTIVATIONAL AND MAINTENANCE FACTORS
  • Herzberg concluded that two separated sets of
    motivation factors influenced
  • Motivation. Prior to Hertzberg people assumed
    that motivation and lack of
  • motivation were merely opposites of one factor on
    a continuum.
  • Herzberg stated that certain job factors, such as
    Job security and Working Conditions ,
  • dissatisfy employees primarily when the
    conditions are absent.
  • However, the presence of the two factors
    generally brings employees only
  • to a neutral state, since these factors are
    not strongly motivation.
  • These potent dissatisfiers are called Hygine
    Factors
  • Other Job conditions known as Motivational
    Factors Motivators and Satisfiers operate
  • primarily to build motivation and their
    absence rarely is strongly dissatisfying.
  • The idea of separating Motivational and
    Maintenance factors helped Managers solve their
  • questions about their Custodial policies and
    wide array of fringe benefits. According to
  • Herzberg, the Fringe benefits and personal
    policies were primarily Maintenance Factors not

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HERZBERS TWO-FACTOR MODEL
  • JOB CONTENT AND CONTEXT
  • Motivational Factors such as Achievement and
    Responsibility are related, for
  • the most part, directly to the Job itself, the
    Employees performance , and
  • the personal recognition and growth that
    employees experience.
  • Motivators are Job-centered they relate to Job
    Content.
  • On the other hand Maintenance factors are mainly
    related to Job Context
  • because they are more related to the environment
    surrounding the job.
  • Thee difference between the Job Content and the
    Job Context shows that
  • employees are motivated primarily by what they do
    for themselves.
  • When they take responsibility or gain recognition
    through their own behavior,
  • they are strongly motivated.

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HERZBERS TWO-FACTOR MODEL

INTRINSIC AND EXTRINSIC MOTIVATORS. The
difference between Job Content and Job Context is
similar to the difference between the Intrinsic
and Extrinsic Motivators in psychology. Intrinsic
Motivators are internal rewards that a person
feels when pperforming a job, so there is a
direct and often immediate connection between
work and rewards. An employee in this situation
is self motivated . Extrinsic Motivators are
external rewards that occur apart from the nature
of work, providing no direct satisfaction at the
time the work is performed. E.g. Retirement
plans, health insurance and vacations. Although
employees value these items, they are not
effective motivators.
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Interpreting HERZBERGS Model
  • Herzbers Model provides a useful distinction
    between Maintenance Factors,
  • which are necessary but not sufficient, and
    Motivational factors, which have
  • the potential for improving employees effort.
  • Herzbers Model broadens Managers perspectives
    by showing the potential
  • powerful role of Intrinsic rewards that evolve
    from the work itself. This
  • conclusion ties in with a number of other
    important Behavioral developments,
  • such as Job Enrichment, Empowerment,
    Self-leadership, and Quality of work
  • life.
  • Managers should be aware that they cannot neglect
    a wide range of factors
  • that create at least a natural work environment.
    In addition, unless Hygiene
  • factors are reasonable addresses, their absence
    will serve as significant
  • distractions to workers.

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Interpreting HERZBERGS Model
  • Herzbers Model has also been widely criticized
    for
  • - Universally not applicable, because it was
    based on and applies best to managerial,
    professional, and upper-level white-collar
    employees.
  • - Model appears to reduce the motivational
    importance of pay, status, and
  • relations with others, since these are
    Maintenance factors.
  • - The Model also seems to be method-bound,
    meaning that only Herzbers approach
    produces the two-factor model. There may be an
    appearance of two factors but in reality
    there is one factor.

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ALDERFERS E-R-G MODEL
  • Alderfers proposed a Modified Need Hierarchy
    model (The E-R-G Model)
  • which was built upon earlier Need Models
    (primarily Maslows) and seeking
  • to overcome some of their weaknesses.
  • The E-R-G Model has just three levels of needs.

Growth needs
Relatedness need
Existence needs
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ALDERFERS E-R-G MODEL
  • Alderfers Model He suggested that Employees are
    initially interested in
  • satisfying their Existence Needs, which combine
    Physiological and Security
  • factors. Pay, Physical working conditions, Job
    security, and Fringe benefits
  • can all address these needs.
  • Relatedness Needs are at the next level, and
    these involve being
  • understood and accepted by people above, below,
    and around the employee
  • at work and away from it.
  • Growth needs are in the third category these
    involve the desire for both
  • Self-esteem and Self-actualization.
  • In addition to condensing Maslows five Need
    levels into three thee, the
  • Model differs from Maslows model in other ways.
  • (For example the E-R-G Model does not assume as
    rigorous a progression from
  • level to level. Instead, it accepts the
    likelihood that all Three levels might be active.
  • It also suggest that a person frustrated at
    either of the two Higher levels may return to
  • concentrate on a Lower level and then progress
    again.

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BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION
  • The three Models of Motivation that have been
    discussed up to this point
  • are known as Content Theories Of Motivation,
    since they focus on the
  • Content (Nature) of items that may motivate a
    person.
  • The major difficulty with Content Models is that
    the Needs people have
  • are not subject to observation by Managers or to
    precise measurement
  • for monitoring purposes.
  • As a result, there has been considerable interest
    in motivational models
  • that rely more heavily on intended results,
    careful measurement, and
  • systematic application of incentives.
  • Organizational Behavior Modification, (OB) Mod,
    is the application in
  • organizations of the principles of behavior
    modification.
  • OB Mod and several other Models are Process
    Theories of Motivation
  • Since they provide perspectives on the dynamics
    by which employees can
  • Be motivated.

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LAW OF EFFECT
  • OB Mod relies heavily on the Law Of Effect, which
    states that a person tends to repeat behavior
    that is accompanied by favorable consequences
    (reinforcement) and tends not to repeat behavior
    that is accompanied by unfavorable consequences.
  • Two conditions are required for successful
    application of OB Mod
  • - The Manager must be able to identify some
    powerful consequences (as perceived by the
    employees)
  • - Manager must be able to administer them in
    such a way that the employee will see the
    connection between the behavior to be
    affected and the consequences
  • The Law Of Effect comes from Learning Theory,
    which suggest that we
  • learn best under pleasant surroundings.
  • The Advantage of OB Mod is that it places a
    greater degree of control,
  • and responsibility, in the hand of the manager.
  • OB Mod places greater emphasis on the use of
    Rewards and Alternative
  • Consequences to sustain Behaviors

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ALTERNATIVE CONSEQUENCES
  • OB Mod places greater emphasis on the use of
    Rewards and Alternative
  • Before using OB Mod, however, managers must
    decide whether they wish to
  • increase the probability of a person continued
    behavior or to decrease it.
  • Once Managers decide on their objectives , they
    have two further choices to
  • make which determine the type of consequence to
    be applied
  • - First, should they use Positive or
    negative consequence?
  • - Second , should they apply it or withhold
    it?
  • The answers to those questions results in four
    unique alternatives as shown in the
  • diagram.
  • Positive Reinforcement provides a favorable
    consequence that encourages repetition of a
    behavior.
  • Shaping is a systematic and progressive
    application of positive reinforcement.
  • Negative Reinforcement occurs when behavior is
    accompanied by removal of an unfavorable
    consequence.
  • Punishment is the administration of an
    unfavorable consequence that discourages a
    certain behavior.

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OB Mod uses four alternative consequences
punishment
Positive reinforcement
Application
Manager's use
Negative reinforcement
Extinction
Withdrawal
Negative
Positive
NATURE OF CONSEQUENCE
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Schedules of Reinforcement
  • The frequency of the behavior creates a
    baseline, or standard, against
  • which improvements can be compared. Then the
    manager can select a
  • Reinforcement Schedule.
  • Reinforcement may be either Continuous or
    Partial.
  • - Continuous Reinforcement occurs when a
    reinforcer accompanies each correct
    behavior by an employee. This encourages quick
    learning (e.g. of Continuous Reinforcement is
    payment of employees for each acceptable item
    that they produce.
  • Partial Reinforcement occurs when only some of
    the correct behaviors are
  • reinforced. Learning is slower with this
    reinforcement.

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Interpreting Behavior Modification
  • The major benefit of Behavior Modification is
    that it makes the Managers
  • become conscious motivators. It encourages
    Managers to analyze
  • behavior, explore why it occurs and how often ,
    and identify specific
  • consequences that will help change it when these
    consequences are
  • applied systematically.
  • The General Guidelines for Applying Behavior
    Modification
  • Identify the exact behavior to be modified.
  • Make sure the expected behavior is within the
    employee's capabilities.
  • Determine not only the rewards that employees
    value but also the magnitude that would effect
    their behavior.
  • Clarify the connection between desired behavior
    and rewards.
  • Use positive reinforcement whenever possible.
  • Use punishment only in unusual circumstances and
    for specific behaviors.
  • Ignore minor undesirable behavior to allow its
    extinction.
  • Use shaping procedures to develop correct complex
    behavior.
  • Minimize the time between the correct response
    and reinforcement.
  • Provide reinforcement frequently and on some
    chosen schedule.

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Interpreting Behavior Modification
  • Behavior Modification has been criticized on
    several grounds including its
  • Philosophy , methods, and practicality.
  • Because of the strong power of desired
    consequences, Behavior
  • Modification may effectively force
    people to change their behavior.
  • - Some critics also fear Behavior
    Modification gives too much power to the
    managers, and they raise the question of Who
    will control the Controllers?
  • - Some other critics say that this model
    insults people's intelligence.
  • - This Model has limited applicability to
    complex jobs (e.g. it is difficult to
    identify specific behaviors in the job of
    Corporate Lawyers, Software Developers or
    CEO job behaviors and reinforce them.

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GOAL SETTINGS
  • Goal are target and objectives for future
    performance. They help focus employees attention
    on items of greater importance to the
    organization, encourage better planning for
    allocating of critical resources, and stimulate
    the preparation of Action Plans for Goal
    attainment.
  • Goals setting are useful After the desired
    Behavior as Managers compare employee results
    with their aims and explore reasons for any
    differences.
  • Meeting Goals also help satisfy a persons
    achievement drive, contributes to feelings
  • Goal Setting works as a Motivational Process
    because its creates a discrepancy between current
    and expected performance.
  • A major factor in the success of Goal Setting is
    self-efficacy.
  • Employees with high self-efficiency tend
    to set higher personal goals under the
  • belief that they are attainable

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Elements of Goal Setting
  • Goal Acceptance Effective Goals need to be
    understood and accepted
  • Specificity- Goals need to be specific and
    measurable as possible so
    that employees will know when a goal is reached.
  • Challenge Most employees work harder when they
    have difficult goals to
    accomplish rather than easy ones. Hard Goals
    however be achievable.
  • Performance monitoring and feedback- Provides at
    least subtle cues to employees that their tasks
    are important, their effort is needed, and their
    contributions are valued.
  • Simple monitoring may not be enough since
    many employees want to know how well the are
    performing.
  • Performance feedbacks tend to encourage
    better Job Performance, and Self-generated
    feedback is an especially powerful motivational
    tool.

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THE EXPECTANCY MODEL
  • A widely accepted approach to Motivation is the
    Expectancy model also
  • known as Expectancy Theory. This Model
    considers the motivation as
  • the product of three factors
  • Motivation Valence x
    Expectancy x Instrumentality
  • Valance - Refers to the strength of a persons
    preference for receiving a reward. It is an
    expression of the amount of one's desire to reach
    a goal. Valance can be positive or negative
    preferences
  • Expectancy - is the strength of belief that one's
    work-related effort will result in
  • completion of a task. Expectancies are
    stated as probability of connection between
    Effort and Performance.
  • One contributing factor to
    Effort-Performance Expectancies is the
    Self-efficacy. High self-efficacy creates a high
    Expectancy assessment. In contrast some employees
    suffer from Imposter Phenomenon. Imposters
    believe that they are not really as capable as
    they appear to be and, consequently fear that
    their incompetence will be revealed to others.
  • Instrumentality represents the employees belief
    that reward will be received once the task is
    accomplished. This is based on subjective
    judgment about probability that organization that
    organization values the employees performance
    and will administrate reward on a contingent
    basis. (Perfotmance ---? Reward Probability)

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INTERPRETING THE EXPECTANCY MODEL
  • ADVANTAGES
  • - The Expectancy Model helps the Managers
    think about the mental processes through which
    motivation occurs. Expectancy Model forces
    managers to think individuals whose beliefs,
    perceptions, and probability estimates powerfully
    influence their behaviors. The Model reflects
  • Theory Y Assumptions about people as capable
    individuals and values human dignity.
  • Encourages Managers to design a motivational
    climate that will stimulate appropriate employee
    behavior.
  • LIMITATIONS
  • - It needs further testing to build a broad base
    of research evident for support
  • Reliable measurers of Valence, Expectancy, and
    Instrumentality need to be developed.
  • The Model need to be made more complete while
    still remaining practical enough for managers to
    use.

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INTERPRETING THE EXPECTANCY MODEL
  • Reliable measurers of valence, expectancy, and
    instrumentality need to be
  • developed.
  • There is a special need to develop measurers that
    managers can use in
  • actual work settings. When possible mangers,
    need to learn both what
  • employees perceive and why they hold those
    valance, expectancy and
  • instrumentality beliefs.
  • This model also need to be made more complete
    while still remaining
  • practical enough for managers to use.

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THE EQUITY MODEL
  • The Equity theory states that employees tend to
    judge fairness by comparing
  • the outcomes they receive with their relevant
    inputs and also by comparing
  • this ratio (not always the absolute level of
    rewards) with the ratios of other
  • people as this formula shows
  • One's own outcomes ? Others outcomes
  • One's own inputs Other
    inputs
  • Inputs includes all elements employees believe
    they bring or contribution to the job
  • (i.e. education, seniority, prior work
    experiences, loyalty and commitment, time and
  • effort, creativity, and job, performance.
  • Outcomes include direct pay, bonuses, fringe
    benefits, job security, social rewards,
  • and psychological rewards.

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THE EQUITY MODEL
  • Employees analyze the fairness of their own
    outcome/input Contract and
  • then compare their contract with contracts of
    other workers in similar jobs
  • and even with those outside of their job.
  • Fairness of Rewards (Equality) may even be judged
    in comparison with
  • relatively arbitrary criteria like age.
  • The Key Factors in Equity
    Assessment
  • Ones Input
    Ones Output
  • Job effort
    Actual pay and Benefits
    Education
    Social Rewards
  • Seniority
    Psychological Rewards
  • Performance
  • Job difficulties
  • Other inputs

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THE EQUITY MODEL
  • If employees perceive Equity, they will continue
    to contribute at about the same level.
  • Otherwise under inequity they will experience
    tension that will create the motivation
  • to reduce the inequity.
  • If employee feels over-rewarded Equity theory
    predicts that they will feel an
  • imbalance in their relationship with their
    employees and seek to restore that balance
  • be either working harder or try to convince the
    other employees to ask for more
  • rewards etc
  • Workers who feel they have been under-rewarded
    seek to reduce their feelings of
  • inequity through the same types of strategies ,
    but some of their specific actions are
  • now reversed. Such as Lower productivity,
    bargain for more , possible qui the job
  • etc..

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INTERPRETYING THE EQUITY MODEL
  • An understanding of Equity should remind Managers
    that employees work within several
  • Social Systems. Employees may select a number of
    reference groups both inside and
  • outside the organization for comparison.
  • Employees are also inclined to shift the basis
    for comparisons to the standard that is
  • Most favorable to them. Such as Educated
    employees often inflate the value of their
  • education, while employees with longer service
    emphasize seniority as the dominant
  • criterion.
  • Many employees have strong egos and high opinions
    of themselves. Consequently all
  • these factors make the task of predicting when
    inequality will occur somewhat complex.
  • Equity Theory has generated extensive research,
    with many of the results being
  • supportive.
  • In particular, under-reward seems to produce
    motivational tension with negative consequences
  • less consistent results are found for over-reward
    condition.
  • Perception plays a key role in this model ,
    suggesting how valuable it is for a Manager to
    gather

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INTERPRETYING MOTIVATIONAL MODEL
  • Several different Models have been studied . All
    of these Models have strength and
  • weaknesses, advocates and critics.
  • No Model is perfect, but all of them add
    something to our understanding of Motivational
  • Process.
  • Therefore, the Motivational Model used must be
    adapted to the situation as well as
  • blended with other Motivational models.
  • Managers are encouraged to combine the
    perspectives of several Motivational Models to
  • create a complete Motivational environment for
    their employees..
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