Motivation. From Concepts to Applications (seminar 3)

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Seminar 3
Motivation: From Concepts to
Applications
Chapters 7 & 8
Department of Management
Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Your home presentations
Time limit: 5 minutes
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The audience: Feel free to ask questions, make
suggestions or comments
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Exercise: Workplaces justice through procedural motivation
1. What do the process motivation theories have in
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common?
Process theories of motivation focus on the “hows”
of motivation, the psychological and behavioral
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processes that humans follow.
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(Motivation Theories: Content and process, 2021)
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Exercise: Workplaces justice through procedural motivation
2. What are the process motivation theories? List and describe
them.
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Locke’s goal-setting theory – specific and difficult goals, with feedback, lead
to higher performance
Bandura’s self-efficacy theory – the higher is a person’s belief in his/her
capability of performing a task, the harder would they try to do this task
Skinner’s reinforcement theory – behavior is a function of its consequences
(i.e., punishments, reinforcements)
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Adam’s equity theory – high levels of employee motivation is achieved
each employee perceives their treatment to be fair relative to others
Vroom’s expectancy theory – a person will choose their behavior based on
what they expect the result of that behavior to be
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(Robbins & Judge, 2013; Theories of motivation, 2019)
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Exercise: Workplaces justice through procedural motivation
3. What is the procedural justice? What are its main elements
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and characteristics?
Procedural justice is the perceived fairness of the process
used to determine the distribution of rewards:
• Process control – opportunity to present your point of view
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about desired outcomes to decision makers
• Explanations are clear reasons for the outcome
• A manager is consistent, unbiased, open to appeals, uses
accurate information.
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(Robbins & Judge, 2013)
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Exercise: The case
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In teams, read the case and its ending: half of the teams will
receive one ending, and the other half – another one. You
are the main character of the case.
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Exercise: The case
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1. Determine the qualifications for the regional manager.
Compare the characteristics, qualifications and
experiences of the 2 workers eligible for promotion. Were
you treated unfairly compared to Ann? Use process
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theories and procedural justice to justify your opinion.
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Exercise: The case
1. After your meeting with the owner, how would youphoto
feel?
What would you do?
2. What steps or elements of the procedural justice were
lacking in the ending? Describe and justify.
3. In the end, do you agree with the decision to promote
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Ann? Was it fair?
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Homework
The course textbook:
1. Read Chapters 15, 16
2. Answer questions at the end of each chapter.
Discuss them in your teams.
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Some tips:
How to prepare for the quiz & exam
• Explore the Chapter 15, 16 in the textbook to study the
definitions and figures.
• Create a document that contains useful phrases,
words, or other tips that members of your team could
use to prepare for the future tests.
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• Share this document with all team members and make
it easily available for class discussions.
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In your teams, create a presentation:
You need to choose a company with an established
corporate culture and describe its:
Primary characteristics
Core values and level of strengths
Forms of transmission to employees
Benefits and drawbacks for the company
As a result, develop a set of step-by-step
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recommendations on how to strengthen a particular
good element of the culture or get rid of a bad one
For this task, you will need to interview one/several
employees of a chosen company
Time limit: 7 minutes
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Before we finish……
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Any questions?
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The end
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Thank you
for your attention!
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References
Motivation theories: Content and process. (2021, July 21). The World of
Work Project. https://worldofwork.io/2019/02/motivation-theoriesphoto
context-and-process/
Robbins, S. P., & Judge, T. (2013). Organizational behavior (15th ed.).
Pearson.
Theories of motivation. (2019, June 19). Expert Program Management.
https://expertprogrammanagement.com/2019/06/theories-of-motivation/
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