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College aantekeningen 4 Social Psychology in Organisations (6463PS009Y)
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Social Psychology in OrganizationsCollege 4 Motivation
What is motivation?
Motivation is…
- What a person does (direction)
- How hard a person works (intensity)
- How long a person works (persistence)
Find underlying needs individual and organizational goals providing rewards
Goal setting
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
SMART goal setting
- Specific
- Measurable
- Achievable
- Relevant
- Time-based
Regulatory Focus Theory (RFT)
Promotion-focused: individuals have a need for achievement, focus on
advancement and set learning goals
Prevention-focused: individuals are vigilant and careful, emphasize fears, focus
on avoiding threats, and set prevention goals.
Job Characteristics Theory
Five core dimensions of the job characteristics theory:
- Skill variety (need to use different skills to be motivated to do the job)
- Task identity (feel like an owner of the whole process of the task)
, - Task significance (has to have some impact on other people)
- Autonomy (some sort of freedom and not monitored)
- Feedback (the job needs to give some sort of feedback)
Job Characteristic Theory: designed jobs give internal rewards
- Individual’s growth needs are moderating factors
- Motivating jobs must:
o Be autonomous,
o Provide feedback,
o Have at least one of the three meaningfulness factors
Skill variety, task identity, task significance
Job crafting
The extent to which individuals can demonstrate initiative in designing their own work
- I-deals: individuals come to an agreement with their supervisor that can
deviate from some regulations, like to leave your work some days earlier to
pick up your kids
o Can relate to sustainable employability: people keep on learning and
growing because of these i-deals
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