...the company was founded in 1996 (University of Phoenix 2005). Over the past two years AirDevils has not received any new awards. Customers have reported that they are unhappy with the quality of the stunts and old routines. Many employees have been quitting, and talking about their dissatisfaction over internet blogs. The founder of the company, Celsey, has hired Dream Teamworks an organizational psychology consulting firm, to help correct the situation at Airdevils (University of Phoenix 2005). For the first part of this simulation Dream Teamworks researched the reasons that job satisfaction was low. First step was to separate the causes from the symptoms. Dream Teamworks assumes after research, that employee dissatisfaction is the symptom of monotonous routine and refusing employee suggestions. There were other complaints addressed towards money however the main cause appears to be lack of change and growth. Some excitement was necessary to keep customers happy and employees motivated. The simulation reported that I was correct on this leading factor for dissatisfaction and prompted me to suggest some interventions that could improve job satisfaction with the budget that Celsey set. I chose Rotation in Industry meets, Enter New Lines of Stunts, and Performance Based Stunts. The simulation results indicated that...
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...PSY 105 Introduction of Psychology Motivation My daughter motivates me to attend school. Even though I am in my mid thirties I feel my future is here. I also go to school to make sure she is taking care of, have a future and for her to attend college as well. What also motivates me is being the first of my mother’s children to get a college degree. I know she is going to be proud of me. Of the theories I have to say I am like the expectancy theory. I look for outcomes and hopefully my current actions today will help me get to where I want to be in life. With this expectation of getting my bachelor degree and beyond, I can get better incentives. Now that I have only twelve classes to left to get my bachelor degree, this drives me to stay focus and to keep my grades up. What also motivate me is students are offer to take the certification to become a certified professional human resource or general professional human resource. I do plan on taking the certification test since this is the last year it is offered to students and to pass will be one of the incentives for me. In Maslow’s needs of hierarchy, I am the safety needs. I fell safe but wants to be secure in my life. I am also the esteem needs. This is something I am working on and the main thing is to gain success because I already have self respect and do not have to get the approval of others. The strategy I used to motivate myself is prayer. This work for me everyday and all...
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...motivation III. Conclusion and desire in this subject JOURNAL I. Summary in chapter 6 Motivation is the one of the best essential skills of manager. To become a prospective manager, we should know the important of motivation, how to motivate the employees effectively. In the chapter 6, I have learnt the motivation concepts from theories to practical. Understand the human psychology and give the way to motivate effective. And today, I would like to give you some knowledge that I have learnt in this chapter and share one of the best ways to motivate other – recognition. Motivation makes people active for doing some work. It creates an extra energy in the body of human to perform the particular work, exert high levels of effort to reach organizational goals, specifically for Organization Behavior to reflect our singular interest in work-related behavior. Some theories of motivation have focused on what things motivate workers. The theories we’ve discuss in this chapter address different outcome variables. In this section, I would like to summary the basic concept theories. In Need Theories, we introduced four theories the focused on needs: Maslow’s hierarchy- proposed that there are five levels of human needs: psychology, safety, social, esteem, self-actualization; ERG with three groups of core need- existence (similar Maslow’s psychological and safety needs), relatedness (similar to Maslow’s social and status needs) and growth (similar to Maslow’s esteem and self-actualization...
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...complexities of human nature. The simple question of, “What motivates you?” is quite loaded in terms of the highly individualized responses one would receive. As Psychology suggests by the numerous theories of motivation, each individual is clearly motivated by many different factors. It is through our motivation that defines us as individuals and propels us towards certain behaviors that satisfy various needs. “Psychologists use the term motivation to refer to the internal processes that activate, guide, and maintain behavior (often, over long periods of time)” (Baron, Kalsher, 2008, p. 298). Through firsthand experience, it is quite clear that motivations also change throughout the course of our lives. For example, the motivation for attending school and succeeding is now quite different for me then when I first attended college at 18. I did quite well in high school, graduating with honors in the top 5% of my class. However, as I entered college I was completely uncertain of what I wanted to do with my life. A combination of the expectancy theory and the goal-setting theory would explain why I did not complete college and dropped out after two years. It becomes quite clear that I did not link any expectations of desired outcomes from school because I did not set clear goals for my life. I simply attended college because that’s what one typically does after high school which was certainly not enough of a motivator for me to graduate. However, as I began to grow and develop...
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...keep talking about. “Be yourself”, “Understand yourself and you will understand others”, “What others think about you is not important as what you think about yourself”… they are some of the most popular quotes that have been shared among the social network recently. The bottom line question is, why people start to care about that topic. Actually it is not new that people ask themselves such these question, but before it was challenging to find the answer due to lack of knowledge or direction. Fortunately, thanks to all the theories developed by respected psychologists, we can use those theories as a guideline in order to analyses about ourselves. I, as a mortal, always wonder who I am and why I think, feel and behave like I do every day. Basically, I want know what make me a unique individual and how I differentiate from the others. In psychology, they call it “personality”. There are variety of perspectives to explain one’s personality; and in this essay, I will analyses my own personality based on three different theories of three psychologist: Adler, Eysenck and Kelly. Adler’s Individual Psychology I remember since I was a kid, I have always felt inferior to my peers since I was sent to the kindergarten later than the other kids. I was told my mother wanted to send me earlier but my grandmother hindered her from sending me there. Instead my granny kept me home and took care of me until I reached four years old. By the time I was in the class, I was so scared of the new...
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...abilities, occupation, hobbies, physical characteristics, etc. One’s self-concepts refer to his or her personal identity and social identity. Individual’s self-perceptions and how he or she interacts in the social world is a significant factor in self-concept. Self-schemas are a significant element of self-concept, which are specific beliefs, mental temples, one uses to define him or herself, and organize his or her world. (Myers, 2010). Self schemas enable people to vision themselves in the future, their possible selves. It helps one to vision what he or she wants such as rich, thin, or successful. Such possible selves are beneficial, for it motivates individuals who want a successful future. The self-concept helps organize thinking and guide social behavior. Social experiences are also exceptionally influential in one’s development of self-concept such as the roles an individual play, social comparisons, success, and failure, and what others think have much to do with one’s development and how he or...
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...Terrorism SOS 440 OL009 Written Assignment 2 What is more important in determining terrorists' motives: the psychology of the individual or the sociological impact of the group? In order to achieve an understanding as to what motivates terrorists, we need to go beyond a psychological approach. In addition to a psychological factor, religion, politics and social surrounding promote a motive as well. Combining these factors can alter the causes, objectives and beliefs of organized terrorist groups. Each terrorist group must be examined within its own cultural, economic, political, and social context in order to better understand the motivations of its individual members and leaders and their particular ideologies. Research has shown that terrorist individuals in large part are not mentally disturbed. Moreover, terrorist groups tend to logically and specifically target “normal people” for recruitment and actively exclude socially unacceptable prospects that might attract unwanted attention to the group. I agree that both factors play a part in this discussion. The psychology of the individual can be very impactful especially in that terrorists are generally so irrationally committed to their purpose that they cannot be reasoned with, nor would they want to be. The sociological aspect of the group will impact each individual terrorist. This is a family they belong to, a union based on faith and political ideologies. It appears to me that peer pressure, fear of retribution, and...
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...Psychology is a thought provoking subject that has made me rethink if we really know the truth behind how our conscious being operate. We know even less about our unconscious side, where there have been many curious incidents such as in 1987 a man killed two of his relatives while sleepwalking. This was explained by [talk about moral debate, importance of sleep research]There was much I was especially looking forward to studying different approaches to psychopathology. Such case studies made me even more curious about human nature and resulted in comprehension in various ways of interpreting behaviour. To gather more expertise on mental health I attended a lecture that explored the environmental influences on anxiety and depression which piqued a further interest in me and also assisted my studies on abnormality. I then pursued with the reading of recent news developments in the world of psychology, where I found articles concerning...
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... it is hard for me to find the common point behind their successes. When I start to learn organizational behavior, I begin to understand how their successes connect to each other with the help of various concepts and theories. In order to further understand whether managers implement the concept in to a real work scenario, I interviewed Peng Liu, the vice president of Hisen Pharmaceuticals Co., and write this paper to find out what exactly he did in a daily basis, and how his managing style related to the theories and concepts in organizational behavior. By summering and evaluating the findings, I could possibly understand why organizational behavior deserve to be learned and applied by managers, even it requires extra time, money and efforts beyond their responsibilities. General background and responsibilities Peng has been with Hisen for 12 years. He started his current job when he joined Hisen. As a manager of a Chinese manufacturing company, Peng has a pretty large number of subordinates, consisting of product research team, administrative team, sales team, finance team, strategic planning department and approximately 300 factory workers. During his normal weekdays, his most important tasks are checking and supervising the project progress, dealing with various issues occurred during the day-to-day operations, and assessing project manager’s performance while getting feedback from them. When it comes to his favorite part about his job, he told me that he like to...
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...Motivations in Advertising Taneisha Cox PSY/211 July 25, 2016 Daja McCleve Motivations in Advertising The commercial I chose to write about is the Coca-Cola-#MakeItHappy commercial from February of 2015. This commercial spoke to me especially with all of the hatred that has been spreading lately with the black lives matter, and all lives matter campaigns going on in the US right now. This commercial opens with a young man visibly upset typing aggressively on his keyboard with images of cyber bullying flashing and being said on his screen. Then they flash to an extremely large server warehouse where a maintenance man is working on a section of severs. He takes a drink of his glass bottle Coca-Cola and accidently sets it down on a wire making it tip over and spill into the whole a server causing sparks. Then you hear a song about showing love and not hate or ugliness. During this song, the screens of people's phones, tablets, electric billboards and computers change from negative, hateful images to words of inspiration and videos of people laughing and getting along. At the end, it shows the sun low over a city horizon with the words "The world is what we make it" across the screen as the song ends with show me love. The motivations that are being targeted in this particular ad are intrinsic and hierarchical. The intrinsic motivation in this commercial is to spread the love and make people happy instead of hate and to bring people down. That one you can be the one person...
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...“What motivates you towards choosing the career/ job orientation you have chosen? Discuss and explain with reference to three of the motivation theories discussed during the lectures” “Why do we do what we do?” Motivation plays a critical role in achieving goals and is an important role in our journey to success. It helps the individual in many different ways, mainly to get started, to keep moving, to do more than others, and it makes the journey much more fun. Pinder (in Ambrose et al, 1999) explains work motivation as the set of internal and external forces that initiate work-related behavior, and determine its form, direction, intensity, and duration. It involves the biological, emotional, social and cognitive forces that activate behavior. Thus, it is concerned with what drives a person’s choice of what to do, how hard they try and how long they keep persisting. The Theory of Self Determination is a human motivation theory focusing on the extent to which people’s thinking, feeling and behavior are the result of the choices they make, of their own free will, without any influence from external forces (Maltby et al, 2010). Developed by Deci and Ryan (1985), this theory, claims that people who choose life professions are basically motivated to seek positive experiences and avoid negative experiences. One of its dynamic ideas is the distinction between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. What drives me towards the career of counseling, consist of both intrinsic and extrinsic...
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...INSTITUT SINARAN MNM 232- Organizational Behaviour Task : Individual Assignment 1- What is My Emotional Intelligence Score? Student’s Name : Tahnee Tsen Tze Ting (13DM256) Program : Diploma in Commerce Lecturer’s Name : Ms Barbara Vun Due Date : 26 September 2014 Question 1: Did the results surprise you? Why or why not? After answering the questionnaire, my marks for the five basic dimension of EI are as follows: self –awareness (9 marks), self –management (7 marks), self –motivation (10 marks), empathy (6 marks), and social skills (7 marks). I am not surprised of the result because I am aware that my emotional intelligence score will neither be too high nor too low. My total mark is 39. I am a very self-aware person, I know my feelings very much and I always motivate myself when I am not happy. For example, when I feel down, I will always remind myself of motivational religious quote. And also I know which area I am good in and I am very confident of myself. I am aware that I am a fast learner and this is a benefit for me whether I am studying or working. My self-management is at an average level, I am good in managing my emotions and mood as I bounce back quickly when facing hardships in life. But, in the term of managing my own time and body, I might not be very good, as sometimes I tend to procrastinate and I did not take good care of my body, for example...
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...in this psychology practicum. Reflecting on the past couple months I am glad I could experience this as I think this class help me learn and explore myself as a person. Back in my first journal I had three objectives that I hoped to achieve throughout this course. I not only believe I achieved them, I also think I have learned some valuable and important lessons in my life. My first objective was to be able to understand psychology theories and apply them in real life, every day situations. Following that, my second objective was for me to assess my future career path. Finally, the last objective was to be able to apply my everyday learning to my personal life,...
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...HRPYC81 PROJECT 4809 Assignment 2 What motivates people to do volunteer work? MJ SCRIVEN TABLE OF CONTENTS LITERATURE REVIEW There are almost as many reasons for getting involved in volunteer work as there are volunteers. Once people get started, they find that their deepest rewards are ones they didn't expect when they first came looking for a volunteer assignment. Participants entered the volunteer world through ads in the paper, articles in the media and invitations by friends. They wanted to get involved in a new community, they overheard someone talking about a need or they just wanted to be active. Some wanted to repay a perceived debt to society and others took up volunteer work as part of a major reassessment of their lives and priorities. They came looking for a better balance in their lives, a learning experience, something to do with their time after retirement or something to add to their skills and their resumes. A good number had a stake in the organization where they were helping. This might be a friend or relative with a disability or a disease or the expectation that they themselves might someday need the service. “The idea that an individual would make significant personal sacrifices for another person, particularly when that person is a stranger, has long fascinated students of social behaviour” (Clary et al. 1998: 1516). “Volunteerism may be defined as contributing one's time or talents for charitable, educational, social, political...
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...• Review pp. 244–248 of Psychology and Your Life. What are the five different approaches to motivation? Choose one of the approaches and explain how it affects motivation. Over here we will discuss the five different approaches to motivation. They are instincts, drive reduction approaches to motivation, drive, homeostasis, and arousal approaches to motivation. Drive reduction approach involves the proper evaluation of a person to find out the things that motivate him the most and the ones that do not motivate him at all. In this method we calculate the personal determination that a person possesses to complete a task that he/she does not physically or mentally want to accomplish. There is always a reason behind everything that a person does. Take for example the case of half of the people around you. They do what they do either to pay their bills, or to have some time to burn, or just cause they find fun in doing that. So drive reduction approach basically aims at finding out that thing that motivates a person and then making him realize how the chores that he/she is doing would help him get that thing. Seems like the only time a person does not need to be motivated to start a task, is one that he or she does not mind doing or better yet have fun with a task. • Review Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs located at the following link: http://media.pearsoncmg.com/pcp/pcp_94178_psych_axia/lbp8e_11374/lbp8e_11374.html. Explain Maslow’s hierarchy of needs...
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