MHR 405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Canoe.Com, Conscientiousness, Distributive Justice
6 Nov 2017
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Mars model of individual behaviour: motivation, ability and situation are the most commonly mentioned directed predictors of individual behaviour and performance. Internal forces that affect a person"s direction, intensity, and persistence of voluntary behaviour. Employee ability: aptitudes and learned capabilities required to successfully complete a task, person-job matching (selecting applicants, developing employees, redesigning jobs, competencies: characteristics of a person that result in superior performance. Role perceptions: understand the job duties expected of us, clearer role perceptions/clarity when we: understand our tasks, performance priorities, preferred procedures, benefits of clear role perceptions: most accurate/efficient job performance, better coordination with others, higher motivation. Situational factors: environmental conditions that constrain or facilitate behaviour, constraints: time, budget, facilities. Joining & staying with the organization: forming employment relationship and staying with the organization, maintaining work attendance, absences due to situation & motivation. Defining personality: relatively enduring pattern of thoughts/emotions/behaviours that characterize a person along with the psychological processes behind those characteristics.
