BUS 272 Chapter 5: 272 CH5
13 Jan 2019
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As an individual"s emotional and cognitive motivation, particularly a focused, intense, persistent, and purposive effort toward work-related goals: an emotional involvement in, commitment to, and satisfaction with the work. A desire to perform beyond narrowly defined job duties. Goal setting, employee involvement, organizational justice, organizational comprehension, employee development opportunities, sufficient resources, and an appealing company vision are some of the more commonly mentioned influences. Is not a personal trait that some people have and others don"t. Is the result of the interaction between the individual and the situation. Is the level, direction and persistence of effort. Drives: primary needs, hardwired characteristics of the brain that attempt to keep us in balance by correcting deficiencies. Innate motives: drives produce emotions that energize us to act on our environment, universal and innate, everyone has them and they exist from birth. Starting point of motivation because they generate emotions, which put people in a state of readiness to act on their environment.
