ERG Theory
The assumption that employees like work, are creative, seeks responsibility and can exercise self-direction.
A theory that posits 3 groups of core needs.
Theory Y
- existence,
- relatedness,
- and growth
The assumption that employees dislike work, are lazy, dislike responsibility and must be coerced to perform.
Theory X
Need for affiliation- The desire for friendly and close interpersonal relationship.
Need for power- The need to make others behave in a way in which they would not have behaved otherwise
Need for achievement- The drive to excel, to achieve in relationship to a set of standards, and to strive to succeed.
Human Behavior in Organization
THEORIES OF MOTIVATION
A theory which states that achievement, power and affiliation are three important needs that help explain motivation.
Lower-order needs- needs that are satisfied externally such as physiological and safety needs.
Self-actualization- the drive to become what a person is capable of becoming.
Higher order needs- needs that are satisfied internally such as social, esteem and self-actualization needs.
McClellands's theory of needs
Two factor theory
A theory that relates intrinsic factors to job satisfaction and associates extrinsic factors with dissatisfaction. And also called as motivation-hygiene theory.
Hygiene factor
What is motivation
Factors such as company policy and administration, supervision, and salary- that when adequate in a job, placate workers. When these factors are adequate people will not be dissatisfied.
A hierarchy of 5 needs- physiological, safety, social, self-esteem or ego, and self-actualization- in which, as each need is substantially satisfied, the next need becomes dominant.
is the process that account for an individual's intensity, direction, and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal.