The Expectancy Theory Model Of Harry 's Motivation

Harry Potter is a fictional character invented by J.K Rowling in the series of seven books starting with Harry Potter and the Philosopher 's Stone and ending with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Wikipedia, 2015). Harry is the main character in this series whose parents died when he was young and he was brought up by his aunt and uncle (Philosopher’s Stone, 1997, p.5). Harry was neglected by his aunt and uncle (Philosopher’s Stone, 1997, p.27). Harry is presented a whole new reality when he goes to the zoo one day and his integration into the magical world changes him from the foundation. These changes within him will be analysed using the developmental psychology theories of Lawrence Kohlberg and Erik Erikson to explain how the environment aided or obstructed Harry’s development.

The Expectancy Theory suggests that individuals choose a particular course of action after they have – often subconsciously – evaluated three critical components of the theory.

The first group of Supervisor A’s employees fail to advance past the effort-performance relationship component of Expectancy theory. These employees have little to no expectancy that their effort translates into better performance. This is primarily because they believe the new production process is too difficult, as they have stated the new process requires more hand dexterity than they are currently capable of. To overcome this hurdle and make the production goals obtainable, the company should consider providing reasonable accommodations to make the production process less difficult for these employees. Secondly, the company should consider providing better training as it may be an issue of the employees not

The company’s first step to implement the expectancy theory of motivation is to devise a written plan of action. Supervisors should be educated on the expectancy theory and should receive motivational training. Supervisors should then start verbally recognizing those workers who are working hard to meet the production goals set forth, even if the goals are not being met. The supervisors should acknowledge these employees by awarding those who are who are working hard and achieving the company’s production goals positive performance evaluations. Employees seeing hard work leads to recognition and praise will be motivated to perform better.

Therefore, even though additional effort may be put into a project it is concluded to have

(1) We recommend Perry to use the Expectancy Theory. We believe this theory can solve Perry’s problem well and responds to his concern. “Expectancy theory is based on the premise that a person will be motivated to put forth a higher level of effort if they believe their efforts will result in

The performance appraisal system can sometimes connect to biases or prejudices that increase discontent, lack of motivation, resistance especially on the part of

We have seen that this supervisor or person responsible for performing the job performance analysis will see a particular skill as important if he is proficient at this skill, and he will see it unimportant if he is not proficient at a particular skill. Therefore, the supervisor will see the employee who has the same skill set as the supervisor, as a good employee, and the employee who does not have the same skill set, as a bad

The Expectancy Theory illustrates the mental process that employees endure when making decisions while doing voluntary things. The theory describes that the effort will determine the performance and the performance will help indicate the overall outcome. “Expectancy represents the belief that exerting a high level of effort will result in the successful performance of some task,” (Dr. Creasy PowerPoint). There are some advantages of the expectancy theory. One advantage is that it emphasizes on rewards or pay-offs,” (Expectancy Theory of Motivation, n.d., para. 5). In Remember the Titans, Coach Herman Boone, portrayed by Denzel Washington, expects big things out of his high school football team. As the newly appointed head coach and a black man, Coach Boone was faced with big expectations or else he would have to face the consequences. Coach Boone established that his team would show tremendous effort in the fall football camp at Gettysburg College. He set ground rules as he told all of his players that they would leave the school by 7:29 AM and made them all wear dress shirts, ties, and a jacket. Coaches appreciate the athletes that display the expectancy theory because they want more out of their team. At Gettysburg College, All-American linebacker Gerry Bertier, confronted fellow starting linebacker, Julius Campbell and wanted him to put in more effort during practice and play the right assignment. As

Motivational Theories are important to management today because employers and managers need to know what drives the employees to perform at their best, and why. As Hersey explains, “If we are to understand, predict, and influence behavior, we must know what our employees really want from their jobs. Only then can we appeal to their strongest motivations and increase the probability of meeting both professional and organizational goals”

This case is about Paul Reed, a vice president and supervisor at Magic Eye, who is trying to understand the reason his programmers in his firm, are not reaching their potential. For that matter, Paul sought Muriel Tremblay, who is responsible for the personal to discover the issue. Muriel then interviewed an employee named Jeannie Savaria who has worked for the company for over a year and discovered that there had been some lack of motivation from Paul. According to Robbins, S. P. & Judge, (184). Motivation is the process that accounts for an individual’s intensity, direction, and persistence of effort towards attaining a goal. In this paper, I will use the Vroom Expectancy Motivation Theory to explain Jeannine Savaria’s motivation and what can her supervisor do to improve her motivation.

The ‘relatedness needs’ is the role of relationship in an organization which includes the safety, love and interpersonal relationship (Dinibutun, 2012). It means that the employees desire to be trusted by others, accepted to be part of the organization so they do not feel isolated from the organization and lastly, received respect from the others (Cheng et al., 2011). The managers must ensure that the employee is working under a friendly environment.

The literature review, explain the theories which are related to the case study’s problems in order to the motivation and satisfy employees’ needs. There are three important theories include; organizational motivation justice, Maslow’s hierarchy needs theory, and expectancy theory.

Radosevich, D. J., Levine, M. S., Sumner, K. E., Knight, M. B., Arendt, L. A., & Johnson, V. A. (2009). The role of expectancy theory in goal striving processes. Journal Of The Academy Of Business & Economics, 9(4), 186-192.

Theory X assumes employees are inherently lazy and will avoid work if they can and that they inherently dislike work. As a result of this, management believes that workers need to be