Chapter 6
Chapter 6
Chapter 6
UNDERSTANDING MOTIVATION
What is Motivation?
Bottom Up Approaches
Idiosyncratic Deals
Job Characteristic Model
The cause of Job Satisfaction
Need Fulfilment
Discrepancies
Value Attainment
Equity
Dispositional/Genetic Components
Key Correlation to Job Satisfaction
Counterproductive Work Behavior (CWB)
Mistreatment of Others
Violence at Work
Cause and Preventions?
Personality Traits ➡Hiring individuals who are less prone to CWB
Unsatisfying jobs ➡Designing Jobs that promote satisfaction and prevent
abusive supervision
Others (more resource powers, intelligence, etc) ➡ Organization should
respond quickly