Organizational Behavior $($MGMT $344)$

Fall $2023$

Assignment $5$:

Directions; Read Chapter $5$ of the textbook as well as the lecture slides on the blackboard. Answer the following discussion questions. Answers should be fully developed and answer all parts of the question.

Submit the assignment via the assignment link on the blackboard by October $14,2023$

Discussion Questions

$1.$ When has your level of performance been directly affected by your motivation? By your ability? By the environment?

$2.$ Identify examples from your own experience that support, and others that refute, Maslow$$s hierarchy of needs theory.

$3.$ Have you ever experienced inequity in a job or a class? How did it affect you?

$4.$ Which is likely to be a more serious problem$$perceptions of being under rewarded or perceptions of being overrewarded?

$5.$ Do you think expectancy theory is too complex for direct use in organizational settings? Why or why not?

$6.$ Do the relationships between performance and satisfaction suggested by Porter and Lawler seem valid? Cite examples that both support and refute the model.

$7.$ Think of occasions on which you experienced each of the four types of reinforcement.

$8.$ Identify the five forms of reinforcement that you receive most often $($e$.$g$.,$ wages, grades, etc.$).$ On what schedule do you receive each of them?