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3. Process perspectives on motivation (Connect, Perform) Read the short scenario below. Then use your understanding of expectancy theory to diagnose the particular employee's barrier to performance Management at Work You are a manager at a company with a written compensation plan that outlines how employees will be paid for performance. When employees get higher annual performance ratings, they will get larger increases in their base pay. Also, when the company achieves certain goals each year, such as hitting earnings per share and customer rating targets, employees will receive a bonus. Despite these incentives, your employees are not always motivated to work as hard as they could. Tara says, "More money is always nice, I guess, but what I really is more responsibility, and I don't feel as though I'm ever going to get that here, I feel stuck in my current job." In terms of expectancy theory, what is Tara's primary issue? O Performance-to-outcome expectancy Effort to performance expectancy Valence Equity theory is based on the idea that people are motivated to seek fairness in the rewards they receive for performance. Consider what you know about equity theory as you read the following scenario, and then fill in the blanks in the dialogue Management at Work Imagine you are hanging out on the sofa, enjoying a little TV. As you sit there, you think about your last conversation with your mom, She decided to set up a work schedule for you, your brother, and your sister, and now a "Household Chores" list hangs in the kitchen. Each person in your family will have a specific chore to do every week: doing the dishes, raking the lawn, taking out the garbage, and so forth Pretty soon your sister, Diana, walks into the room. She has a huge smile on her face.

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Question # 1. The correct option is valence

Explanation: Valance is the level of importance individual places on each of the outcomes of effort. In this case, the organization should know the valance and try to include the rewards in terms of added responsibility for the best performers.

Question # 2. Fill in the blanks in the statements, based on the conversation which is about effort versus outcomes, and in the end, it leads to evaluation on the equity parameters the correct sequence of words to be filled are: Input, Output, and Inequitable.

Question # 3.

i- Vonda is frustrated because of there is not Goal specificity. A goal has to be specific.

ii- Lenani's problem is with Feedback, as she is not getting the feedback on her progress towards the goal.

Question # 4. Morisano's study illustrate that training students in goal setting lead to an increase in achieving their objective and the same has been proven through research and data.

If students are setting their goals, it would have higher level of goal acceptance as the goals have been set by themselves only.