Literature Review: Expectancy Theory
Running Head: Vroom’s Expectancy theory
Literature Review:
Vroom’s Expectancy theory
Literature review:
Pavel Smirnov
Vroom’s Expectancy theory
Word count:
Advanced Writing Skills, GEN 2133
Date 07.04.2013
Contents Literature Review: 0 Literature review: 0 Pavel Smirnov 0 Vroom’s Expectancy theory 0 Advanced Writing Skills, GEN 2133 0 1 Literature review 2 1.1 Introduction 2 1.2 Expectancy Theory 2 1.3 Conclusion 3 2 Reference List 5
Literature review
Introduction
The expectancy theory of motivation has become an increasingly popular model for predicting work performance and job preference. The empirical tests of this model have typically employed correlation analysis to test the strength of the relationship between a measure of motivational force and the subjects' work performance ratings of their preferences for specific jobs. This research has been systematically examined in recent reviews of expectancy theory literature. Several major methodological problems and inconsistent interpretations of the expectancy model were identified, leading to at least one conclusion that, "The predictive power of the total (expectancy) theory is thus essentially unknown." Another shortcoming of the previous empirical studies is that they focused solely on the question of whether the expectancy model could reliably predict the dependent variables of work performance or job preferences. (Van Eerde, W., & Thierry, H. 1996)
Expectancy Theory
Vroom (1964) defined expectancy as a subjective probability of an action or effort (e) leading to an outcome or performance (p) expressed as e -• p. In practice, expectancy has also been measured as the perceived relation or correlation between an action and an outcome. In addition, expectancy has been interpreted as the subjective probability that effort leads to the outcome of performance or second-level outcome (o) expressed as e -• o. The latter view confounds
Literature Review:
Vroom’s Expectancy theory
Literature review:
Pavel Smirnov
Vroom’s Expectancy theory
Word count:
Advanced Writing Skills, GEN 2133
Date 07.04.2013
Contents Literature Review: 0 Literature review: 0 Pavel Smirnov 0 Vroom’s Expectancy theory 0 Advanced Writing Skills, GEN 2133 0 1 Literature review 2 1.1 Introduction 2 1.2 Expectancy Theory 2 1.3 Conclusion 3 2 Reference List 5
Literature review
Introduction
The expectancy theory of motivation has become an increasingly popular model for predicting work performance and job preference. The empirical tests of this model have typically employed correlation analysis to test the strength of the relationship between a measure of motivational force and the subjects' work performance ratings of their preferences for specific jobs. This research has been systematically examined in recent reviews of expectancy theory literature. Several major methodological problems and inconsistent interpretations of the expectancy model were identified, leading to at least one conclusion that, "The predictive power of the total (expectancy) theory is thus essentially unknown." Another shortcoming of the previous empirical studies is that they focused solely on the question of whether the expectancy model could reliably predict the dependent variables of work performance or job preferences. (Van Eerde, W., & Thierry, H. 1996)
Expectancy Theory
Vroom (1964) defined expectancy as a subjective probability of an action or effort (e) leading to an outcome or performance (p) expressed as e -• p. In practice, expectancy has also been measured as the perceived relation or correlation between an action and an outcome. In addition, expectancy has been interpreted as the subjective probability that effort leads to the outcome of performance or second-level outcome (o) expressed as e -• o. The latter view confounds