BUS 272 Lecture Notes - Belongingness, Procedural Justice, Absenteeism

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 272
• Professor: Graeme Coetzer

Document Summary

Great little box company motivates its employees through goal setting, fair pay, and recognition, resulting in a highly engaged workforce. The forces within a person that affect the direction, intensity, and persistence of voluntary behavior. Exerting particular effort level (intensity), for a certain amount of time (persistence), toward a particular goal (direction) Individual"s emotional and cognitive (rational) motivation, particularly a focused, intense, persistent, and purposive effort toward work-related goals. Emotional involvement in, commitment to, and satisfaction with the work. High absorption in the work the experience of focusing intensely on the task with limited awareness of events beyond that work. High self-efficacy: believe you have the ability, role clarity, and resources to get the job done. Drives (primary needs, fundamental needs, innate motives: hardwired characteristics of the brain that correct deficiencies or maintain an internal equilibrium by producing emotions to energize individuals, prime movers of behavior by activating emotions.