Contemporary

Theories of
Motivation
1. Self-determination Theory
• Proposes that people prefer to feel they
have control over their actions

• Focused on cognitive evaluation theory

 Self-concordance
• Considers how strongly people’s reasons for
pursuing goals are consistent with their
interest and core values
2. Job Engagement

• Investment of an employee’s physical,

cognitive, and emotional energies into
job performance
Degree to which an Leadership behaviors
employee believes it that inspire workers
is meaningful to Match between the to greater sense of
engage in work individual’s values and mission
those of the
organization
3. Goal Setting Theory

• Reveals impressive effects of goal specificity,

challenge, and feedback on performance
 They energize
us
Challenging goals
Leads us to discover get there attention
strategies that help us and thus tend to
perform the job or help us focus
task more effectively
People persist in
trying to attain
them
 Feedback guides behavior

Self-generated feedback
- employees are able to monitor their
own progress
 Goal Commitment
3 Other
Factors
that Task Characteristics
Influence
GOALS
National Culture
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 Goal Commitment
3 Other
Factors
that Task Characteristics
Influence
GOALS
National Culture
.
 Goal Commitment
3 Other
Factors
that Task Characteristics
Influence
GOALS National Culture
.
 Management by Objectives

• emphasizes participatively set goals that are

tangible, verifiable, and measurable

• Works from the bottom up as well as bottom

down
4. Self- Efficacy Theory

• Social cognitive theory/ social learning theory

• An individual’s belief that he/ she is capable

of performing a task
• Enactive Mastery

• Vicarious Modeling

• Verbal Persuasion

• Arousal
 • Enactive Mastery

• Vicarious Modeling

• Verbal Persuasion

• Arousal
 • Enactive Mastery

• Vicarious Modeling

• Verbal Persuasion

• Arousal
• Enactive Mastery

• Vicarious Modeling

• Verbal Persuasion

• Arousal
Thank You!!