Influences on Employee Behavior

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The main purpose of this presentation about how to change employee behavior through training and other incentives.

Influences on Employee Behavior

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A Major Purpose of Human Resource Development
• To change employee behavior through training and other incentives

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Model of Employee Behavior
• Forces that influence behavior:
– External to the employee:
• External environment (economic conditions, laws and regulations, etc.) • Work environment (supervision, organization, coworkers, outcomes of performance)

– Within the employee:
• Motivation, attitudes, knowledge/skills/abilities (KSAs)

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The External Environment

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Factors in the External Environment
• • • • • Economic conditions Technological changes Labor market conditions Laws and regulations Labor unions

Source: Heneman, Schwab, Fossum & Dyer (1989)

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Factors in the Work Environment
• • • • Outcomes Supervision and leadership Organization Coworkers

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Influences on Employee Behavior
Factor Outcomes Supervision Organization Issues Types Effect on Motivation Leadership Performance Expectations Reward Structure Organizational Culture Job Design Norms Group Dynamics Teamwork Control of Outcomes
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Coworkers

Outcomes Can Influence Employee Behavior
• Personal outcomes • Organizational outcomes
– Both expectancy theory and equity theory predict that employee perceptions of the outcomes they receive (or hope to receive) influences their performance of that behavior.

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Supervisor Characteristics
• Leadership • Performance expectations • Evaluation of efforts

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Organizational Influences
• Reward structure • Organizational culture • Job design

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Coworker Influence
• • • • Norms Group dynamics Teamwork Control over outcomes

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Motivation
• Psychological processes that cause the arousal, direction, and persistence of voluntary actions that are goal-directed

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Motivation Characteristics
• Pertains to voluntary behavior • Focuses on processes affecting behavior such as:
– Energizing of effort
– Direction of effort – Persistence of effort

• An individual phenomenon
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Energizing Effort
• The generation or mobilization of effort

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Direction of Effort
• Applying effort to one behavior over another

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Persistence
• Continuing (or ceasing) to perform a behavior

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Explanations of Work Motivation
• Need-based • Cognitive-based • Noncognitive-based

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Need-Based Theories
• Underlying needs, such as needs for survival, safety, power, etc., are what drives motivation Theories: • Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory • Alderfer’s existence, relatedness, and growth (ERG) theory • Herzberg’s two-factor theory

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Need Activation-Need Satisfaction Process

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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Self-Actualization Needs

Esteem Needs

Belonging & Love Needs

Safety Needs

Survival Needs
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Cognitive Theories
• • • • Expectancy theory Goal-setting theory Social learning theory Equity theory

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Expectancy Theory
• Motivation is viewed as a conscious choice • People put their efforts into actions they can perform to achieve desired outcomes • Three key elements: – Expectancy – expect effort to result in success – Instrumentality – performance results in reward – Valence – value individual puts on outcome

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Expectancy Theory

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In Other Words…
• • • • You believe you can do it You believe your performance is linked to the results You believe that the results are worth the effort You won’t do it if you don’t believe it’s worth the effort

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Goal Setting Theory
• Specific, difficult, and understood goals generally lead to higher performance • Keys to success are the level of difficulty and the clearness of goals

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Social Learning Theory
• Self-efficacy – judgment of what you think you can do with the skills you have • Major prediction of the theory is that expectations determine:
– Whether a behavior will be performed – How much effort will be expended – How long you will perform the behavior

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Self-Efficacy and Effort

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Equity Theory
Major assumptions: • If you are treated fairly, you will keep working well • If you think you are being treated unfairly, you will change your behavior in order to be treated fairly

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Equity Theory

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A Noncognitive Theory
• Reinforcement theory – e.g., behavior modification

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Complexity of Behavior

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Behavior Modification
Principles for controlling employee behavior: • Positive Reinforcement • Negative Reinforcement • Extinction – decrease occurrences by eliminating reinforcement that causes the behavior • Punishment – introduce an adverse consequence immediately after behavior

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A Specific Example
• Sleeping in Class: • 1. Warning • 2. Leave class and explain to the Assistant Dean why you were asked to leave

• Too often – you are dropped from the class
• Question: Is this positive or negative reinforcement, and why?

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Other Internal Factors That Influence Employee Behavior
• Motivation • Attitudes • Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs)

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Wagner-Hollenbeck Model of Motivation and Performance

By permission: Wagner III and Hollenbeck, 1995

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Attitudes
• A person’s general feelings of favor or disfavor towards something • Feelings towards a person, place, thing, event, or idea • Tend to be VERY stable and hard to change • Attitudes are important in training – e.g., does the trainee intend to use the training or ignore it?

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Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs)
• Abilities – general capacities related to the performance of specific tasks • Skills – combines abilities and capacities, generally the result of training • Knowledge – understanding of the factors or principles related to a specific subject • HRD programs mostly focus on changing skills and knowledge

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