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Chapter 10
Motivating Employees
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Undergraduate 1
09/17/2011

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Intrinsic Reward
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the personal satisfaction you feel when you perform well and complete goals
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Extrinsic Reward
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something given to you by someone else as recognition for good work; extrinsic rewards include pay increases, praise, and promotions
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Scientific Management
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studying workers to find the most efficient ways of doing things and then teaching people those techniques
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Time-Motion Studies
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studies, begun by Frederick Taylor, of which tasks must be performed to complete a job and the time needed to do each task
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Principle of Motion Economy
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theory developed by Frank and Lillian Gilberth that every job can be broken down into a series of elementary motions
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Hawthorne Effect
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the tendency for people to behave differently when they know they are being studied
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Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
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theory of motivation based on unmet human needs from basic psychological needs to safety, social, and esteem needs to self-actualization needs
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Motivators
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in Herzberg's theory of motivating factors, job factors that cause employees to be productive and that give them satisfaction
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Hygiene Factors
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in Herzberg

s theory of motivating factors, job factors that can cause dissatisfaction if missing but that do not necessarily motivate employees if increased

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Goal-Setting Theory
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the idea that setting ambitious but attainable goals can motivate workers and improve performance if the goals are accepted, accompanied by feedback and facilitated by organizational conditions
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Management by Objectives (MBO)
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a system of goal setting and implementation; it involves a cycle of discussion, review and evaluation of objectives among top and middle-level managers, supervisors and employees
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Expectancy Theory
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Victor Vroom's theory that the amount of effort employees exert on a specigic task depends on their expectations of the outcome
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Job Enrichment
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a motivational strategy that emphasizes motivating the worker through the job itself
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Job Enlargement
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a job enrichment strategy that involves combinging a series of tasks into one challenging and interesting assignment
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Job Rotation
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a job enrichment strategy that involves moving employees from one job to another
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