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What is the core assumption of motivation?
What is the normative content-based approach of Kanfer?
What is the focus of context- based approaches? And how can people be motivated?
- Task & Job -- motivated by having meaningful work, having responsibilities
- Social -- motivated by group/team level, experiencing support
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What is the basic assumption of the goal setting theory?
Why do specific and difficult goals with feedback lead to higher performance?
Which three kind of goals are there and what do they mean?
Learning goal -- incremental (toenemend) rather than fixed idea of capacity
Creativity goal -- output should be novel and appropriate
What are the three motivational states and what do they mean?
2. Reason to motivation -- why someone is proactive, rising from intrinsic, integrated, and identified motivation.
3. Energized motivation -- due to positive affective states that prompt proactive goal processes. --> "hot state" , a drive
On which two dimension do goals vary?
Changing goals -- planning to change the self or situation
What do we mean by internalizing extrinsic goals?
What are the three satisfactors of needs?
Competence -- need to effectively learn and master challenging tasks
Relatedness -- need to feel attached to someone
What is meant with the proactive motivation theory?
What is prosocial motivation?
What are three downsides of prosocial behavior?
- May trigger and excuse unethical behavior
- Helping may detract from own performance
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