Psychology, Human Motivation

Human Motivation in the Professional Setting (name (school

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Consider these two findings of a classical management experiment by David McClelland on developing achievement motivation (1965

Not all management programs automatically lead to improved performance This was important to know . There is a viewpoint in psychology which states that the positive effects of such courses are largely due to suggestion , or to the power of positive thinking and according to this view it would not be achievement motivation training as such that produced the

effect we secured any training promoted as convincingly would work as well . Yet the participants in the company course did not do as well , despite the fact that , if anything , it had a more solid company support - all of which argued against this viewpoint

Our experiment showed its effects only in comparison with a course that seemed to slow people down . This strongly suggested that we ought to be trying it in a less achievement-oriented environment if we wanted to find more dramatic effects . To a certain extent we were only gilding the lily ' in trying to make the executives of this high-pressure firm more achievement-oriented

Citing psychology as basis , let me leave McClelland 's assertions and get to that field of social science . We know that motivation directs behavior towards a particular incentive that produces pleasure or alleviates an unpleasant state . In other words , incentive motivation is characterized by affect , the production of pleasure or displeasure Early psychologists argued that almost every sensation we have contains some degree of reward or displeasure

This might explain why the new participants in the McClelland experiments fared well and better than those who were originally from the company . The second point of conclusion explains that the original company participants were already used to the environment and the rigors of the experiment provided an additional push to the already rigorous environment

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In addition to this , it will be worthwhile to take another answer to the perennial question : How do you install a generator in an employee ? A brief review of Herzberg 's Motivation-Hygiene theory of job attitudes is required before theoretical and practical suggestions can be offered

The findings of those experiments and studies , along with the corroboration from many other investigations using different procedures suggest that the factors involved in producing job satisfaction (and motivation ) are separate and distinct from the factors that lead to job dissatisfaction . Since separate factors need to be considered , depending on whether job satisfaction or job dissatisfaction is being examined , it follows that these two feelings are not opposites of each other . The opposite of job satisfaction is not job dissatisfaction , but rather no job satisfaction and similarly , the opposite of job dissatisfaction is not job satisfaction , but no job dissatisfaction

Two sets of different needs of man are involved here . One set of needs can be thought as stemming from his animal nature - the built-in drive to...