PROCESS - BASED MODELS

Expectancy theory

The expectancy model suggests that motivation to expend effort to do something is determined by three basic individual perceptions

Equity Theory

How to make comparison?:

Outcome:

focuses on an individual's feelings about how fairly he or she is treated in comparison with others

Under-rewarded (Inequity)

Equity

Over-rewarded (Inequity)

Other-inside

Self-Outside

Other-outside

Self-inside

*Maintaning Equity:

Distort comparisons

Change the Comparison

Change Outcomes

Quit the job

Change inputs

Goal setting theory (SMART)

Specific

Measurable

Achievable

Relevant

Time

Reinforcement Theory

Increasing

Decreasing

Based on the idea that people learn to repeat behaviors that are positively rewarded (reinforced) and *avoid behaviors that are punished (not reinforced)

The application on reinforcement theory is frequently called behavior modification because it involves changing one's own behavior or the behavior of someone else

Positive:

Negative:

Punishment

The administration of positive and rewarding consequences following a desired behavior

Avoidance learning, strengthens desired behavior by allowing escape from an undesirable consequence

The withdrawal of the positive reward or reinforcing consequences for an undesirable behavior

The administration of negative consequences following undesirable behavior

Extinction