Motivating Employees

Read this resource to understand motivation in terms of the P-O-L-C framework. You will explore needs, goal-setting, and process-based theories, which consider the mental process of the employee as key to understanding their motivation.

Process-Based Theories

EXERCISES

  1. Your manager tells you that the best way of ensuring fairness in reward distribution is to keep the pay a secret. How would you respond to this assertion?
  2. What are the distinctions among procedural, interactional, and distributive justice? List ways in which you could increase each of these justice perceptions.
  3. Using an example from your own experience in school or at work, explain the concepts of expectancy, instrumentality, and valence.
  4. Some practitioners and researchers consider OB Mod as unethical because it may be viewed as employee manipulation. What would be your reaction to this criticism?
  5. Consider a job you held in the past. Analyze the job using the framework of job characteristics model.
  6. If a manager tells you to "sell as much as you can," is this goal likely to be effective? Why or why not?