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  1. Attribution:

  2. Equity Theory:

  3. Equity Sensitivity:

  4. Expectancy:

  5. Expectancy Model:

  6. Fundamental Attribution Bias:

  7. Imposter Phenomenon:

  8. Inputs:

  9. Instrumentality:

  10. Macromotivation:

  11. Micromotivation:

  12. Motivation:

  13. Operant Conditioning:

  14. Outcomes:

  15. Perceptial Set:

  16. Primary Outcomes:

  17. Secondary Outcomes:

  18. Self Actualization:

  19. Self Efficacy:

  20. Self Fulfilling prophecy (pygmalion effect):

  21. Self serving Bias:

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Motivational Applications

Attribution:

Process by which people intrpret the causes of their own and others' behavior

Equity Theory:

Employee tendency to judge fairness by comapring their relevant inputs to the outcomes they receive, and also comparing this ratio to those of other people.

Equity Sensitivity:

Recognition that employees have different preferences for overreward, equity, or underreward.

Expectancy:

Strength of belief that work&-related effort will result in successful completion of a task (performance).

Expectancy Model:

Theory that motivation is a product of three factors: valence, expecctancy, and instrumentality.

Fundamental Attribution Bias:

Tendency to attribute others' achivement to good luck or easy tasks and their failures to not trying hard enough or not having the necessary personal characteristics.

Imposter Phenomenon:

The belief that personal capabilities are not as great as other people believe them to be.

Inputs:

Include all the elements that employees believe they bring, or contribute, to the job.

Instrumentality:

Belief that 9reward will be recieved once a task is accomplished.

Macromotivation:

Conditions outside the firm that influnce employee performance.

Micromotivation:

Conditions within the firm that influnce employee performance.

Motivation:

Strength off the drive toward an action.

Operant Conditioning:

Any type of reinforement intended to modify behavior by its consequnce.

Outcomes:

Are the rewards they perceive they get from their job and employer.

Perceptial Set:

people's tendancy to percieve what they expect to perceive.

Primary Outcomes:

Result direclty from an action.

Secondary Outcomes:

Follow from the primary ones.

Self Actualization:

The need to become all that one is capable of becoming.

Self Efficacy:

the internal belief that one has the necassary capabilites and competenices to perform a task, fulfill role expections, or meet a challenging situation successfully.

Self Fulfilling prophecy (pygmalion effect): 

A manager's expection for an employee will cause the manager to treat the employee differently, and the employee will respond in a way to confirm the initial expections. Also known as the Pygmalion effect.

Self serving Bias:

Tendency to claim undue creidt for one's own success and minimize personal responibility for problems.

Valence: 

Strength of a person's preference for reccieving a reward.