What type of motivation is involved when an employee finds internal satisfaction in doing a job well?

Students should draw the model in Figure 5.8.

The goal of the job characteristic model is to promote high intrinsic motivation by designing jobs that possess the five core job characteristics. The five core job characteristics are (1) skill variety, (2) task identity, (3) task significance, (4) autonomy, and (5) feedback.

These core job characteristics affect the three critical psychological states that employees experience: (1) experienced meaningfulness of the work, (2) experienced responsibility for results, and (3) knowledge of the actual results of the work activities. These in turn affect job outcomes such as intrinsic work motivation, growth satisfaction, general job satisfaction, and work effectiveness.

Three person factors affect or moderate how individuals respond to job enrichment: (1) knowledge and skill, (2) growth need strength, (3) and context satisfactions.

Research underscores three practical implications of the job characteristics model:

1. This model can be used to increase employee job satisfaction.
2. Managers can enhance employees' intrinsic motivation and performance, while reducing absenteeism and stress, by increasing the core job characteristics.
3. Managers are likely to find noticeable increases in the quality of performance after a job redesign program.

Students should provide an example from a job they are familiar with.

Which of the following is an example of a content theory of motivation?

Theories of motivation that look at the content of what it is that motivates us. The most common examples of content theories are Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Alderfer's ERG model, Herzberg's two-factor model, and McClelland's need for achievement, affiliation, and power.

Which of the following would be characterized as an extrinsic motivation?

In extrinsic motivation, rewards or other incentives — like praise, fame, or money — are used as motivation for specific activities. Unlike intrinsic motivation, external factors drive this form of motivation. Being paid to do a job is an example of extrinsic motivation.

Which three of the following are reasons an employee may be more motivated than his or her counterparts?

Which three of the following are reasons an employee may be more motivated than his or her counterparts? The employee has specific, challenging, and achievable goals.

What states that motivation is a function of five basic needs that are met sequentially?

In McClelland's acquired needs theory, A. there are five basic needs: power, affiliation, achievement, esteem, and self-actualization.