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Level 7 Diploma in Business and Organisational Psychology

Foundations of Organisational Motivation

BOP702 · Motivation, Job design, and Extrinsic Rewards — Week 1 of 16

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This week’s topics

Foundations of Organisational Motivation

  1. Needs, motives, and psychological drives
  2. Goal-setting and incentive dynamics
  3. Arousal theory and emotional motivational states
  4. Work Motivation Defined - Organizational Psychology Lecture 7.1
  5. Goal Setting Theory
  6. Motivation: Financial and Non Financial Employee Incentives

What you will be able to do

  • 1.1 Discuss major aspects of the motivation process in an organisation.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: discuss major aspects of the motivation process in an organisation.

Study materials

Videos

  • Work Motivation Defined - Organizational Psychology Lecture 7.1 · YouTube · Professor Q · 4 min · for registered students
  • Goal Setting Theory · YouTube · Galton College · 27 min · for registered students
  • Motivation: Financial and Non Financial Employee Incentives · YouTube · Galton College · 54 min · for registered students
  • The Lure of Authority: Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power · YouTube · LSE · 69 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • A Review of Self-Determination Theory's Basic Psychological Needs at Work · Reading · Reading, article · for registered students
  • Goal-setting participation and employees' proactive behaviour · Reading · Reading, article · for registered students
  • Organizational Behavior, ch. 5: Theories of Motivation · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 163–204 · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Foundations of Organisational Motivation
  • Week 2: Socio-Cultural Contexts of Workplace Motivation
  • Week 3: Content Theories of Employee Motivation
  • Week 4: Process Theories and Comparative Analysis
  • Week 5: Evolution and Models of Job Design
  • Week 6: Contemporary Job Design and Technological Impacts
  • Week 7: Mobilising Job Design for Employee Motivation
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Reward Paradigms
  • Week 10: Mechanisms of Reward Determination
  • Week 11: Performance-Related Pay and Strategic Reward Governance
  • Week 12: Applying Motivation, Job design, and Extrinsic Rewards in p…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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