Topic: Organisational behaviour-motivation
The three assignment questions to assignment questions to discuss are:
1. How can equity theory explain the motivation of employees working at Patagonia?
2. To what extent is Patagonia’s approach to employee motivation consistent with expectency theory? assignment questions to discuss.
3. What elements of Locke’s theory are in evidence at Patagonia.
OB assignment checklist:
– read through the theories and understand how to actually use them to motivate someone
– use headings
– make sure the literature is integrated.
When applying Adams’ theory you MUST have a comparison other When wishing to apply Expectancy theory, the following steps can be
applied if you want to provide some calculations: Identify the range you want to use for V( equidistant around zero)
Choose WHAT the V value is for. In other words what is it that the employee desires.
This then becomes what the motivating force is targetting (MF)
Choose the value for V and give reason for the value.
Identify what the employee needs to do to get the “V” and what expectation that they can achieve the task. This then is the value for
E (WHICH IS ONLY IN THE RANGE 0 TO 1) and give reason for the value
Determine HOW MUCH THEY TRUST THE ORGANISATION TO FULFIL the promise of giving them what they are after (this is also in the range from 0 to 1 and is the I in the formula)
Do the calculation and if it is high and positive then the employee is highly motivated to perform the task.