Chapter $5$ Foundation of Employee Motivation

Four$-$drive theory recommends that companies must keep fulfillment of the four drives in balance. What is this $$balance$$ and why is it important? Give an example $($real or hypothetical$)$ of how a company maintains balanced drive fulfillment. Also describe a company that does not provide this balance, including the consequences of this imbalance on employees$$ attitudes and behavior.

Everyone who works as an electronic game developer has extrinsic sources of motivation, and most also experience some degree of intrinsic motivation. Considering the dynamics of extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, what should company in this industry do to ensure that their game developers are highly motivated at work?

Use all three components of expectancy theory to explain why some employees are motivated to show up for work during a snowstorm whereas others don$$t make any effort to leave their homes.

Describe a situation in which you used organizational behavior modification to increase or decrease someone$$s motivation regarding a specific behavior. What specifically did you do$?$ What was the result?

Chapter $6$ Applied Performance Practices

The city manager of a large city government wants to reduce supervisory costs by encouraging employees to motivate and manage themselves much of the time. The manager has heard of self$-$leadership and believes that it may be a key strategy to reduce the number of supervisors in the organization. Discuss the extent to which self$-$leadership practices among employees would support the city manager$$s objectives. Also, summarize the content of a training module that would improve any one of the self$-$leadership practices?

Describe a time when you practiced self$-$leadership to perform a task successfully. With reference to each step in the self$-$leadership process, describe what you did to achieve this success.

Social characteristics are often overlooked in job design. Identify two jobs that have high social interaction requirements and$/$or high social feedback. Next, identify two jobs that have low levels of these two job characteristics. To what extent do these two job characteristics improve employee motivation? Explain why.

Chapter $7$ Decision Making and Creativity

A recent graduate is offered a job by an employer she admires even before she can start her job search. The student thinks it is an opportunity and grabs it$.$ Explain the recent graduate$$s decision in terms of the role of emotions in decision making.

Think of a time when you experienced the creative process. Maybe you woke up with a brilliant $($but usually sketchy and incomplete$)$ idea, or you solved a baffling problem while doing something else. Describe this incident to your class and explain how the experience followed the creative process.