MAN 320F Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Job Security, Employee Stock Option, Theory Z
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Any inconsistency between our attitudes, behavior, beliefs, values, or emotions. Dissonance can be a powerful motivator to change. The willingness to do something to satisfy some need. The processes that account for your intensity, direction, and persistence of effort towards attaining a goal. Internal and external factors that stimulate people to be continually interested and committed to a task and to exert persistent. Motivation may be rooted in a basic need to minimize physical pain and maximize pleasure. Only unsatisfied needs influence behavior, satisfied needs do not. Research appears to validate the existence of universal human needs. Physiological needs-> safety and security -> love and belonging -> self-esteem -> self- actualization. Worked at mit sloan school of mgt. Management assumes employees are ambitious, self-motivated and exercise self- control. Theory x and y are not different ends of the same continuum. Rather they are two different continua in themselves.
