1. Motivation and work behavior Use your knowledge of motivation to complete the following sentences. Gwen is studying motivation in high school students. Her theory is that when students are in an environment in which more is expected of them, they will be more motivated. Gwen is looking at a of motivation. Looking at what people want from work-for example, proposing that all people want to be compensated fairly and get the trust of their supervisor-is a theory because it doesn't focus as much on the reward offered as it does on people's desires for a reward. Taylor's theory of motivation says that it is more important to increase the overall profits of an organization than it is to focus on the division of those profits between management and labor