software begins to fail, we look for upgrades and ways to improve it. Similarly, we need to upgrade our human operating systems when our current method has not kept up with the ever-changing business world. The concept of reward and punishment to encourage employees to be more productive, is an outdated way of managing people. In order to create a better work environment and increase productivity, we need to upgrade our idea of motivation to include autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Herzberg, a
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administration. This shift to a new paradigm is often referred to as new public management (NPM). In essence, NPM is based on two philosophies: economic rationalism and managerialism. In Australia, the implementation of reforms in public services have become more efficient, effective and economical (James 2005). This can be further enhanced when a market-oriented approach will be taken in public policies and with the introduction of business methods and practices in public sector management. Public sector
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Social Process Theories: Theories Explained Transcript Major Principles Frank Williams Professor, University of Houston – Downtown My approach to social process theories is pretty simple. It is – it’s mostly a suyggestion that process means how people come to be deviant, delinquent, or whatever act you ma be talking about. So social process suggests that we’re going to focus on the social aspects of that – the coming deviant, delinquent, whatever we might do in criminology in particular
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Running head: PHOBIAS AND ADDICTIONS Phobias and Addictions PSY/300 Abstract This essay examines phobias and addictions, how phobias can be developed through operant conditioning and how addictions can be developed through operant conditioning. This essay also examines the distinctions between classical and operant condition and examines “extinction” as it relates to psychological theory and how extinction is achieved in classical and operant conditioning. Phobias
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TABLE OF CONTENT 1. Introduction 2. Situational Leadership 3.1 Purpose of the Model 3.2 Leadership Style 3.3 Followers Maturity levels 3.4 Leadership Support 3.5 Regression 3. Situational Leadership and Power 4.6 Types of Power 4.7 Powers Bases 4.8 Uses of Power 4. Advantages of the Situational Leadership Model 5. Conclusions and Recommendations
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hostility that the slaves held for the master race. The philosopher claimed that the Jews, out of their ressentiment and hatred for the strong master race, began to reject the “aristocratic value equation,” which stated that the good are the strong, the powerful, the wealthy, and that the bad are the weak, the cowardly. In order to seek retaliation and devalue the masters, the slaves inverted the concept of good and bad and created their own morality, slave morality, which valued humility, sympathy and became
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Asian 160L Shanrui Yong 12/08/2015 Emperor Qin Shi Huang Emperor Qin Shi Huang was the first emperor of what would come to be known in the Western world as China. He unified the warring states of China and kept them together by means of a centralized bureaucracy and a standardized and codified law system. In his 35-year reign, he managed to create magnificent and enormous construction projects such as the Great Wall of China and the Terracotta Army. He standardized all weights and measures
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literature review As pointed by Vroom [1964], motivation is derived from the Latin word “movere”, which means “to move”. It is an internal force, dependent on an individual’s needs which derive him/her to achieve. Shulze and Steyn [2003] affirmed that in order to understand people’s behavior at work, managers or supervisors must be aware of the concept of needs or motives, which will help ‘move’ their staffs to act. According to Robbins [2001], motivation is a need-satisfying process which means
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antecedents and consequences in changing behavior. There are two kinds of consequences – those that reinforce (strengthen) behavior and those that punish (weaken) behavior. Many students confuse negative reinforcement and punishment; reinforcement strengthens behavior, but punishment suppresses or weakens behavior. (p.43-46) Cognitive explanations of learning highlight the importance of prior knowledge in focusing attention, making sense of new information, and supporting memory. In the cognitive approach
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of effort toward organizational goals, conditioned by the effort’s ability to satisfy some individual needs. Motivation is necessary element and the most crucial aspect in achieving goals in the organization. When people get motivated, they will put more effort and try harder on what they doing to achieve better goals. Today, most companies and organizations want to know how to motivate employees in the workplace, so they can work with the zest and increase efficiency and productivity. Moreover, when
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