MGMT 3101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Best Alternative To A Negotiated Agreement, Law And Justice, Ileum
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Motivation is the willingness to exert high levels of effort toward goal. Direction - focus (task, organizational goals, personal goals) & goal directed behavior. Persistence - in face of failure & setbacks. Goal setting: goals are the objects or aims of action outcome, process, learning goals. Regulate effort: initiation - getting startedintensity - level of effort. Direct attention & behavior: to task, organizational goals &/or personal goals. Increase persistence: in face of failure & setback. Sense of self, joy in the work itself, sense of balance. Relative levels of reward are important for motivation. Motivation is a function of comparisons with referent others. Comparisons are based on outcomes & inputs & the ratio of the two. Long-term growth, teamwork, systematic evaluation of training outcomes, setting challenging stretch objectives. Commitment to total quality, economy in spending, innovative thinking and risk taking, good performance, candor; surfacing bad news early.
