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| The process by which a person's efforts are energized, directed, and sustained toward attaining a goal |
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| Hierarchy of needs theory |
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| Maslow's theory that there is a hierarchy of five human needs |
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| Food, Drink, Shelter, Sexual Satisfaction, and others. |
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| A person needs security and protection from physical and emotional harm. |
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| Affection, belongingness, acceptance, and friendship |
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| A person's needs for internal factors such as self respect, autonomy, and achievement, and external factors such as status, recognition, and attention |
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| A person's need to become what he is capable of becoming |
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| Order of needs to be satisfied |
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Self-Actualization
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| The assumption that employees dislike work, are lazy, avoid responsibility, and must be coerced to perform |
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| The assumption that employees are creative, enjoy work, seek responsibility, and can exercise self-direction |
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| The motivation theory that intrinsic factors are related to job satisfaction and motivation, whereas extrinsic factors are associated with job dissatisfaction |
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| Factors that eliminate job dissatisfaction, but don't motivate |
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| Factors that increase job satisfaction and motivation |
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| The motivation theory that says three acquired (not innate) needs- achievement, power, and affiliation-are motives in work |
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| nAch Need for achievement |
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| The drive to excel, to achieve in relation to a set of standards, and to strive to succeed |
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| the need to make others behave in a way that they would not have behaved otherwise |
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| nAff need for affiliation |
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| the desire for friendly and close interpersonal relationships |
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| the proposition that specific goals increase performance and that difficult goals, when accepted, result in higher performance than do easy goals |
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| an individual's belief that he or she is capable of performing a task |
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| the theory that behavior is a function of its consequences |
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