BCIT ORGB 1100 | Questions with Correct
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Employee Motivation
The forces within a person that affect the direction, intensity, and persistence of voluntary
behaviour
Employee Engagement
Employee's emotional and cognitive motivation, particularly a focused, intense, persistent, and
purposive effort toward work-related goals
Drives
Hardwired brain activity that correct deficiencies
Innate and universal
Produce emotions that energize us to take action (prime movers of behaviour)
Emotions are amplified or suppressed by self-concept, social norms, past experience
Needs
Goal-directed forces that people experience.
We channel emotional energy toward specific goals
, Goals formed by self-concept, social norms, and experience
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem, self-actualization
Seven categories - five in a hierarchy -- capture most needs
Lowest unmet need is strongest until satisfied, then next higher need becomes top motivator
Model lacks empirical support
Main problem: Each of us has a unique needs hierarchy --not universal
Holistic Perspective
Recommended studying multiple needs together
Humanistic Perspective
Recognized that social dynamics, not just instinct, influence motivation
Positive perspective
Emphasized importance of self-actualization (growth needs)
Foundation of positive OB
instrinsic motivation
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Employee Motivation
The forces within a person that affect the direction, intensity, and persistence of voluntary
behaviour
Employee Engagement
Employee's emotional and cognitive motivation, particularly a focused, intense, persistent, and
purposive effort toward work-related goals
Drives
Hardwired brain activity that correct deficiencies
Innate and universal
Produce emotions that energize us to take action (prime movers of behaviour)
Emotions are amplified or suppressed by self-concept, social norms, past experience
Needs
Goal-directed forces that people experience.
We channel emotional energy toward specific goals
, Goals formed by self-concept, social norms, and experience
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem, self-actualization
Seven categories - five in a hierarchy -- capture most needs
Lowest unmet need is strongest until satisfied, then next higher need becomes top motivator
Model lacks empirical support
Main problem: Each of us has a unique needs hierarchy --not universal
Holistic Perspective
Recommended studying multiple needs together
Humanistic Perspective
Recognized that social dynamics, not just instinct, influence motivation
Positive perspective
Emphasized importance of self-actualization (growth needs)
Foundation of positive OB
instrinsic motivation
