COMM 222 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Motivation, Highscope, Job Performance
21 Feb 2017
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The motivation theories suggest that pay is a very important motivator. Pay can be exchanged for food, shelter, and other necessities of life. Pay can also function to satisfy social, self-esteem, and self-actualization needs. If pay has this capacity to fulfill a variety of needs, then it should have especially good potential as a motivator. According to expectancy theory, if pay can satisfy a variety of needs, it should be highly valent, and it should be a good motivator to the extent that it is clearly tied to performance. The use of money as a motivator is primarily an attempt to capitalize on extrinsic motivation. The st(cid:396)u(cid:272)tu(cid:396)e, (cid:272)o(cid:374)te(cid:374)t, a(cid:374)d (cid:272)o(cid:374)figu(cid:396)atio(cid:374) of a pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)"s (cid:449)o(cid:396)k tasks a(cid:374)d (cid:396)oles. What is included in the job, what are the components of the job (work schedule and the work itself) what is expected of the job.
