Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Goal Setting, Clayton Alderfer, Expectancy Theory

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Nancy Annett

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Motivation: a set of energetic forces that originates both within or outside an employee, that determine the direction, intensity, persistence of an employee"s work effort. Move faster and longer, and determines what employees do at a given movement (direction in which their effort is channelled) Once the direction of effort has been decided, motivation determines how hard an employee works (intensity of effort) and for how long (the persistence of effort) Set of distinct forces: internal (sense of purpose and confidence) and external (goals that are given to an employee) Engagement: wildly used term in contemporary workplace that has different meanings depending on the context most often refer to motivation, but can refer to affective commitment. Engaged employees devote a lot of energy to their job, striving as hard as they can to take initiative and get the job done. Only 30% of employees are engaged reason why hr emphasis on improving engagement levels.