WGU C715 Organizational Behavior - Ch.7 Motivational Behavior, Questions and answers. VERIFIED. (2024/25 exam UPDATES. APPROVED)

WGU C715 Organizational Behavior - Ch.7 Motivational Behavior, Questions and answers. VERIFIED. What are the three key elements of motivation? - -intensity, direction, and persistence motivation - -accounts for an individual's intensity, direction, and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal hierarchy of needs theory (Maslow) - -1. Physiological 2. safety 3. social 4. esteem 5. self actualization lower order needs - -satisfied externally, such as physiological and safety needs. higher order needs - -satisfied internally, such as social, esteem, and self-actualization needs self-actualization - -the drive to become what you are capable of becoming Theory X - -assumption that employees dislike work, are lazy, dislike responsibility, and must be coerced to perform. Theory Y - -assumption that employees like work, are creative, seek responsibility, and can exercise self-direction. hygiene factors - -Factors—such as company policy and administration, supervision, and salary— that, when adequate in a job, placate workers. When these factors are adequate, people will not be dissatisfied Hertzberg's two factor (motivation-hygiene) theory - -relates intrinsic factors to job satisfaction and associates extrinsic factors with dissatisfaction McLelland's theory of needs - -states achievement, power, and affiliation are three important needs that help explain motivation need for achievement (nAch) - -need for achievement (nAch) The drive to excel, to achieve in relationship to a set of standards, and to strive to succeed need for power (nPow) - -The need to make ot