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COB 300 Management Test 1 Questions and Answers | Reviewed Ch. 13 Motivation - 10 Questions on test from chapter 13 Football Player Video - - Janitor gives truth to a player who just recently quit the team - "do it for yourself, NOT other people" - Motivates the player by telling the brutal t...

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COB 300 Management Test
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Ch. 13 Motivation - ✔✔10 Questions on test from chapter 13


Football Player Video - ✔✔- Janitor gives truth to a player who just recently quit the team


- "do it for yourself, NOT other people"


- Motivates the player by telling the brutal truth


Pargas Example - ✔✔- Cannot motivate all people the same way


- Culture plays a big role in this


- People value different things


- e.g money might not motivate people in Japan or european countries like it does in the U.S. -- Japan

honor oriented


- e.g. Wanting name inside CD cover instead of $15,000 bonus


Equity Theory - ✔✔- Want to be treated equally -- does not mean rewarded the same


- Perception are the focus




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1) Inputs -- ex. studying


2) Outcomes -- getting A's


3) Referents -- Peers


Motivating with Equity Theory - ✔✔- Look and correct current inequalities


- Reduce employee inputs


- Increase employee outcomes


- Decision making process is fair


Expectancy Theory - ✔✔People will be motivated as long as their efforts lead to good performance and

rewarded for such performance


- Expectancy: certain effort will lead to certain performance


- Instrumentality: Expectation that good performance will lead to desired outcome


- Valance: value a worker assigns to an outcome -- e.g. "how badly you want a reward"


Motivating with Expectancy Theory - ✔✔- Gather info


- Steps to link rewards to individual performance


- Empower employees to make decisions


Reinforcement Theory - ✔✔Strengthen


- Positive reinforcement -- encouragement


- Neg. reinforcement -- remove unpleasant cons (not punishment)




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Weaken


- Punishment -- simply punishing


- Extinction -- weakens behavior




Schedule for reinforcement


- Continous -- good results


- Intermittent


* fixed interval -- not good results


* Variable interval -- not good results


- Fixed Ratio -- good results


- Variable ratio -- good results


Goal Theory of Motivation - ✔✔How to Motivate


1) Assign specific, challenging goals


2) Ensure workers accept the goals


3) Provide frequent, specific, performance-related feedback




Goal Setting




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