PSYC 361 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Motivation, Internal Standard, Job Performance
6 Apr 2016
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Training: formal procedures that have the trainee acquiring skills, concepts, or attitudes, intended to improve employee and organizational performance. Big expense but worth it: improves employee and org effectiveness, needed for job specific ksao"s after selection, keeping up with technology, showing that org wants to invest in you so you don"t leave. Learning: relatively permanent change in behavior and capabilities that occurs as a result of experience or practice. Learning outcomes: cognitive acquisition, organization, application of knowledge, skill-based development of technical, procedural, or motor skills (ex. Interpersonal skills: affective changes in attitude, motivations, goals, and/or values. Rationale: training increases probability of learning, learning increases possibility of job performance. Readiness: extent to which trainees possess characteristics necessary to successfully learn and transfer capabilities from training to the job. Individuals not ready to learn, won"t know what to do with what they are learning. Goal orientation: dispositional tendency describing manner by which individuals are motivated to succeed on learning and performance tasks.
