Module 13

Question 1

This theory shows how goals and feedback can be highly motivating factors for employees.

Answer 1

Goal Setting Theory

Question 2

Five Goal-Setting Principles:

Answer 2

• 1. Clarity
• 2. Challenge
• 3. Commitment
• 4. Feedback
• 5. Task complexity

Question 3

Suggestion should be welcomed and wisdom from the expert should be given due consideration.

Answer 3

Feedback

Question 4

Goal should be challenge the person’s ability to make him exert more effort in learning something new and growing along the way.

Answer 4

Challenge

Question 5

Complex goals can overwhelm the person and will take a longer time to accomplish.

Answer 5

Task complexity

Question 6

The first thing that should be considered in setting goals is to determine what the person is really trying to achieve. The S.M.A.R.T mnemonic is useful.

Answer 6

Clarity

Question 7

This means owning the goal and making it one’s responsibility to make sure that behaviors are undertaken to achieve it.

Answer 7

Commitment

Question 8

Who is Edwin Locke?

Answer 8

Proponent of the ” Goal Setting Theory.”

Question 9

A self-perception or “self-theory” that people hold about themselves.

Answer 9

Mindset

Question 10

Psychologist who wrote the book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success(2006).

Answer 10

Carol Dweck

Question 11

A person’s basic qualities can be learned or cultivated through hard work and effort

Answer 11

Growth Mindset.

Question 12

Types of Mindset

Answer 12

1. Fixed Mindset

2. Growth Mindset

Question 13

A person believes that their character, intelligence and creativity are innate/inborn and cannot be changed or altered.

Answer 13

Fixed Mindset

Question 14

It refers to the person’s beliefs about his capacity to exercise some measure of control over his behavior and over events that take place around him.
Self-efficacy is a concept that is neither biological nor hereditary.

Answer 14

Self- Efficacy

Question 15

Self-Efficacy is an attribute that can be learned and enhanced through the following:

Answer 15

1. Mastery of Learning and Skills
2. A Good Social Model.
3. A Persuasive Environment.
4. Physical Fitness.
5. Emotional Maturity

Question 16

This prepares the individual for the challenges and failures encountered on the way to his goal.

Answer 16

Emotional Maturity

Question 17

Learning through observation is best achieved when the model is credible and trustworthy.

Answer 17

A Good Social Model

Question 18

Competence for a physical skill initially requires that the person is in good health.

Answer 18

Physical Fitness

Question 19

Practice is necessary for the individual to have mastery.

Answer 19

Mastery of Learning and Skills

Question 20

A social environment that is supportive elevates the morale of the individual and encourages him to perform at his best every time thereby achieving his goals.

Answer 20

A Persuasive Environment

Question 21

A form of self-regulation adopted by humans to achieve specific aims. By focusing people’s attention, goals facilitate responses that are compatible with people’s objectives.

Answer 21

Goals

Question 22

Sequence of Motivation Cycle

Answer 22

Needs-Defieciency - Drive- Action - Goal-Satisfaction

Question 23

When the ___ is reached the need is satisfied and the tension/drive is reduced.

Answer 23

goal

Question 24

A goal –directed behavior all begins within the individual a ___ which is lack or a deficit.

Answer 24

needs

Question 25

The tension is a ___ that builds up and directs the individual towards the goal.

Answer 25

drive

Question 26

Importance of Setting Goals:

Answer 26

• Setting goals direct the individual’s behavior
• Goals, once set can determine the individual’s progress toward accomplishing it
• Goals serve as guide to discipline behavior
• Goals keep the individual busy so no time is wasted
• Goals motivate the individual because it provide a purpose/reason for his behavior