Psychology 2990A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Frederick Herzberg, Equity Theory, Type A And Type B Personality Theory
23 Oct 2017
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Content theory of motivation: importance of works itself. Process theories of motivation: focus on cognitive processes. Goal-setting theory (locke): motive by achieving certain goal (*most practical: lead to better performance when having goal, the more specific, the better, difficult to attain, greater motivation, too difficult, worse than have none. Job satisfaction: affect psychological well-being after retirement: low satisfaction improves in health after retired, high satisfaction positive before and after. Increase immediately after taking a new job(honeymoon effect), declined first year or two(hangover effect) Job descriptive index(cid:523)jd)(cid:524)"s 5job factors: pay, promotion, supervision, nature of the work, characteristics of coworkers: minnesota satisfaction questionnaire (msq): satisfaction and dissatisfaction of 20 factors. Polling data: only 10% dissatisfied but many want to change jobs, depends on kinds of question asking, positively correlated to financial performance of company. Job experience: expectation: new worker: attractive because it"s new, increase after years of experience, parallels with age, use of skills: happier if had chance to apply abilities.
