People Management - Motivation Theories

The Expectancy Theory describes the relationship of what people value, the effort and the behaviour is needed to obtain it. In that the Theory concentrates on the important role of the links between effort, performance and outcome. If a manger is able to build clear and strong linkages within an organization there will be a high motivation level available. Predominated that the employees' believe in the link throughout performance and reward. On one hand, its …

…two out of four available frameworks to assess motivation in order to increase performance. Therefore another suggested area of improvement is on one hand to bear Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs in mind to become a better understanding that multiple motives drive motivation. On the other hand the valuable contribution of the Equity Theory is another building block to make predictions on people's behaviour and level of motivation when there is perceived the condition of inequity.