BU288 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Job Design, Goal Setting, Motivation
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The junior accountant activity- had to analyze sabrita"s current job in terms of job characteristics and find a way to redesign it to make it better and more suitable. Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Management is good if you want compliance but if you want engagement; self-direction works best. Fred vs. barney example from a couple lectures ago applies to this theory. Motivation is not just about what"s happening to us, but what"s happened to others. More specifically, equity theory suggests that employees create a mental ledger of the outcomes or rewards they get from their job duties. That"s up to you and depends on what you find valuable. Equity theory further suggests that employees also create a ledger of the inputs or contributions they put into their job duties. Again, the composition of your metal ledger is completely up to you: we always compare our own inputs and outcomes to others" inputs and outputs.
