MGMT10002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Job Rotation, Egocentric Bias, Belongingness

• School: University of Melbourne
• Department: Management
• Course: MGMT10002
• Professor: Vanessa Pouthier

Document Summary

Motivation refers to the force either within or external to a person that arouse enthusiasm and persistence to pursue a certain course of action. Desire to perform behaviour of its own sake. Desire to perform behaviour in order to acquire material, social reward. Human motivation is a factor of 5 basic human needs: Argues that organisation"s should leverage the higher level needs as well. Once needs are met they"re no longer a source of motivation. Factors that drive motivation are different to those that drive demotivation. Just because employees are satisfied at work doesn"t mean they"re motivated. To motivate people you should do more than ensure areas of dissatisfaction are not there. Proposes that certain types of needs are acquired during an individual"s lifetime. Individuals generally develop a dominant bias towards one of the 3. Value map covers more of the drivers of human motivation. Motivation comes from a diverse set of needs/values learned through experiences.