Understanding Motivation Theory: Reinforcement, Learning Orgs, and Theories, Slides of Organization Behaviour

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Theories of learning  Classical and operant conditioning  Social learning theory Goals
Finish up learning
Cover basic theories of motivation docsity.com 2 Reinforcement
Research on use of reinforcers  Financial vs. nonfinancial
Financial incentives have strong effect on performance (Kluger & DeNisi, 1996)
Financial incentives affects performance quantity more than quality (Jenkins, Mitra, Gupta, & Shaw, 1998)
Financial and nonfinancial incentives have roughly similar efficacy (Stajkovic & Luthans, 1997)  Punishment widely used, but not seen as consistently effective Learning organizations
An organization that focuses on supporting learning and providing learning opportunities throughout the organization. Learning organizations
Process and conditions of learning (Gagne, 1974)  Attention  Awareness  Acquisition  Retention and recall  Application  Feedback
Each of these steps is necessary for individuals to learn and apply new knowledge, which is the goal of the learning organization docsity.com 5 Cognitive theories
Goal-setting theory (Locke, 1968; Locke & Latham, 1990) Goal-directed effort Goal difficulty Goal specificity Direction Effort Persistence Task strategies Goal committment Performance Goal-setting theory
Moderators  Feedback – progress towards goals  Task complexity
Learning goals, not performance goals
Proximal goals, not distal goals Needs (content) theories
Maslow’s “hierarchy of needs” docsity.com 6 Maslow
Research  No stable “hierarchies” – everyone has different general hierarchies, and switch back and forth  People still motivated by “higher-order” needs even when lower-order is not satisfied  Satisfied needs still motivate Needs (content) theories
Theory of Learned Needs (McClelland)  Children learn to internalize certain types of needs that reflect cultural values
Need for achievement
Need for power
Need for affiliation  Based on early theories of personality Motivation theory docsity.com