Developed by Victor Vroom in 1964 the expectancy theory seeks to define employee and work motivation by using different criteria. According to Vroom’s theory, employees are motivated by three factors: Valence, Instrumentality, and Expectancy (Van Eerde, 1996). Each one of those factors has a causal relationship: effort-performance, performance-reward and reward-personal goals. I will seek to define the components for the model and their associated relationship (Robbins, 2007). Vroom conveyed valence
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Expectancy Theory The Expectancy Theory of Motivation includes three parts: Expectancy (Effort-Performance), Instrumentality (Performance-Reward), and Valence (Rewards-Personal Goals). The theory was developed on the basis of an argument that a person will be further motivated to improve if they believe that those efforts will result in better performance or perhaps they will be given better rewards for the work they may do. Task A). Expectancy (Effort-Performance) The first part of this theory
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