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Motivating behavior - process-based perspectives on motivation

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Process-based perspectives (on motivaion)

Focus on how people behave in their efforts to satisfy their needs

Equity theory (on motivation)

Focuses on people’s desire to be treated with what they perceive as equity and to avoid perceived inequity

Equity and responses to equity (look at the figure)

The belief that we are being treated fairly in relation to others; inequity is the belief that we are being treated unfairly in relation to others

perceptions by comparing their situation with that of someone else’s. If they perceive equity, they are motivated to maintain the current situation. If they perceive inequity, they are motivated to use one or more of the strategies shown here to reduce the inequity.

Expectancy theory (of motivation)

Suggests that people are motivated by how much they want something and the likelihood they perceive of getting it

The expectancy theory of motivation

The expectancy theory is the most complex model of employee motivation in organizations. As shown here, the key components of expectancy theory are effort-to-performance expectancy, performanceto- outcome instrumentality, and outcomes, each of which has an associated valence. These components interact with effort, the environment, and the ability to determine an individual’s performance.