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Thursday, 4 June 2015

MGT502 Organizational Behaviour GDB No.1 Solution Spring 2015

 Motivation is a psychological feature that arouses an organism to act towards a desired goal andelicits, controls, and sustains certain goal-directed behaviors. It can be considered a drivingforce; a psychological one that compelsor reinforces an action toward a desired goal. Forexample, hunger is a motivation that elicits a desire to eat. Motivation is the purpose orpsychological cause of an action..

 Motivation in Organization

1. Definition: motivation is a process of arousing and sustaining goal-directed behavior induced by the expectation of satisfying individual needs

2. The motivation processUnsatisfied need => Tension => Drives => Search Behavior => Satisfied needs => Reduction of tension => New unsatisfied needs

3. Types of theories

(1) Need-based theories*.Maslow's need hierarchy*.McGregor's Theory X and Theory*.Herzberg's two-factor theory*.Alderfer's ERG theory*.McClelland's need theory

(2). Process-based theory*.Equity theory*.Expectancy theory*.Goal-setting theory*.Reinforcement theory:*.Attribution theory

(3) Individual-organizational goal-congruence theories*.Exchange*.Accommodation*.Socialization*.Identification4. Maslow's Need Hierarchy

(1) A hierarchy of five basic needs*.Physiological needs: hunger, thirst, shelter, sex, and other bodily needs*.Safety needs: security and protection from physical and emotional harm*.Social needs: affection, belongingness, love, acceptance, and friendship.*.Esteem needs: internal esteem (self-respect, autonomy, achievement), and external esteem (status, recognition, attention, power, and face)*.Needs for self-actualization: the drive to best realize one's potential, including potential in personal growth, achievements, and self-fulfillment.Low-order needs: physiological and safety needs, they are satisfied externally (payment, unions)High-order needs: social, esteem, and self-actualization needs, they are satisfied internally.

(2). Basic assumptions:*.A substantially satisfied need no longer motivates*.It is the lowest level of ungratified need in the hierarchy that motivates behavior*.As a lower level of need is met, a person moves up to the next level of needs as a sourceof motivation

(3). The socio-cultural construction of need hierarchy


                                                                                                           

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