Motivation

Objectives
1.What is motivation?
2.What three beliefs help determine work effort, according to expectancy theory?
3.What two qualities make goals strong predictors of task performance, according to goal setting theory?
4.What does it mean to be equitably treated according to equity theory, and how do employees respond to inequity?
5.What is psychological empowerment, and what four beliefs determine empowerment levels?
6.How does motivation affect job performance and organizational commitment?
7.How do organizations use compensation practices to increase employee motivation?
8. What are the major needs theories and how do they relate to motivation?
To read
Read the chapter on Motivation and read the articles and think about how they relate to the theories of motivation. In addition, as the textbook does not provide much information on needs theory, I encourage to do some additional reading on these theories. Be it the library or google scholar, if you type in Maslow you will find the original article easily, the same occurs with Herzberg and what he published in HBR.

To watch/listen
There are 5 videos that pertain to the material in the chapter, each of which focuses on a different theory of motivation. As needs theories are not discussed in detail, this video is probably particularly helpful as it provides an overview of each theory, albeit a brief overview as most of those theories are associated with a book. In addition I have included a link to a TED talk by Daniel Pink the author of Drive. I encourage you to watch it. I have also put a link to his website as it contains some good information and links to some interesting OB topics.