Chapter 4 (part 2)

Achivment Motivation

Efforts to master a task, achieve excellence, overcome obstacles, and take pride in success

Stability

Whether the casue of success or failure is relativley permanent or changable

Competitivness

Striving for satisfaction by comparing peerformcance with a standard of excellence

Need achievement theory

Motivation reflects the interation of the desire to achieve sucess and the desire to avoid failure

Attribution Theory

Examines how poeple explain the causes of their successes and failures

Locus of Causality

Whether the percieved casue of an outcome comes from within the person or from outside

Locus of Control

Whether a person believes the casue of an outcome is within or outside their control

Task Orientation

Success is based on personal improvemnts, mastery, and meeting one’s own standards

Approach Goal

Focusing on achieveing competence or a desired postitive outcome

Motivational Climate

The enviornment created by leaders that emphizes either mastery/task goals or comparison/ego goals.

Learened Helplessness

Belieiving that one’s actions have little or no effect on the desired outcome

Achievement Goal Theory

Motivation depends partly on how a person defines and interperates success

Ego / Outcome Orientation

Success is based on outperfroming or defeating others

Competence Motivation Theory

People are motivated by feelings of competence, self-worth, and control

Avoidence Goal

Focusing on avoiding failure, incompetence, or an unwanted outcome