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 usefulness is driven by the assumption that values drive motivation whereas on the other hand the main limitation of the Theory come…