MGT 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 94: Organizational Behavior, Job Performance
21 Dec 2020
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Motivation is a powerful force because it can drive employees by encouraging and rewarding them for accomplishing challenging goals. Motivation can also drive employees to cheat when they experience any kind of injustice or are threatened by goals they can"t attain. It can be difficult to navigate and try to predict these forces if you are a manager, but knowing more about the different motivational theories can assist in understanding how motivation can operate and how employees get motivated. Motivation is the process that accounts for someone"s intensity, direction, and persistence of the effort toward achieving a goal. General motivation is concerned with the effort toward any kind of goal. Intensity is how hard a person tries at something. This is the thing that many of us focus on when talking about motivation. High intensity, though, isn"t likely to lead to favorable outcomes on job performance unless effort is channeled in a direction benefitting the organization.
