Operant Conditioning Paper PSY 390 November 11‚ 2013 Operant Conditioning “Operant conditioning is a theory of learning that generally follows “Thorndyke’s Law of Effect”. This law states that behaviors that are positively reinforced will become more likely to occur and behaviors that are negatively reinforced will become less likely to occur.” (Johnson‚ D. 1999). Skinner referred to operant conditioning as being the way animals learn. In general there are
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Reinforcement Theory BUS 375 Employee Training Instructor: Eboni LaMar January 15‚ 2014 Reinforcement theory is the act of shaping the behavior of individuals in an organization which has a combination of reward and punishment (Booth 1996). Reward and punishment are always used to reinforce desired behavior as well as to eliminate the unwanted behavior. Rewarded behavior will be repeated and strengthen the performance of an organization because reinforcement theory works on
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Students will strive for excellence in order to achieve that wish to obtain the rewarded. Rewards are as recognition‚ certificates‚ honors and awards. Students will feel appreciated when they receive this reward and feel worthwhile with their efforts to achieve success. It is also a positive reinforcement that encouraging students. According Kazdin (1984)‚ reinforcement more effective when given regularly
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the reinforcement. For example‚ when teaching a student basic multiplication skills you can give the student a page of math problems to do. After having completed the page in a certain amount of time and the answers all being correct they can get a reward. From experience I believe
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Case study: McDonald’s Restaurants: aligning reward strategy to business objectives through employee engagement Overview and background Tis case study shows how a company with a strong culture of measure-ment has built its own methodology and produced evidence to demonstrate how rewards can enhance employee engagement and thereby business performance. Growing out from their frst outlet in California in 1948‚ McDonald’s now have over 31‚000 restaurants in 118 countries. Tey frst
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role for building productive and well satisfied employees. It is a key ingredient for successful company. The company should know what is the right motivating strategy suitable for their employees so by that both company and employees was benefited. Rewards are good motivator but Jim Taylor’s case was different. In my own perspective‚ Ms. Jennifer Chen’s motivation strategy was not fair because if she really wants to motivate Jim Taylor she didn’t reduce Jim’s fixed salary because it makes Jim Taylor
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Appraisal discussions • Personal development (training‚ coaching‚ reading‚ sittings etc) • Management development • Good job design • Team working (interaction and mutual responsibility) • Extrinsic reward and recognition (basic pay‚ performance pay‚ awards‚ saying ‘well done’) • Intrinsic rewards (the satisfaction from doing a worthwhile job reasonably well) • Effective remedies for under performers. Performance management levels: • Organisation • Department • Unit • Team • Individual
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same response by itself. The situation builds up through repeated exposure. (b) Preferring to purchase jeans at a Diesel Store Cognitive learning. Theories believe that learning occur through trialand-error process with habit formed as a result of rewards received for certain responses or behaviors. (c) Buying a digital camera for the first time It can be under observation learning A process by which individual observe the behavior of others‚ remember it‚ and imitate it. Also known as modeling. People
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a combination of both rewards and penalties for motivation. • The organization use this approach as the motivation tools to ensure people in the organization can behave like what the superior want. • Based on the strategy of putting carrot in the front of donkey and hitting it with the stick behind so it has to run. The result is the same‚ the donkey run. CARROT • Refer to incentives or rewards • People contribute or become more productive because they are offered rewards. • It can work very well
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QUE 1. a) Examine the key messages of motivation theory to organizations. (5mks) I. Motivation puts human resources into action. Every concern requires physical‚ financial and human resources to accomplish the goals. It is through motivation that the human resources can be utilized by making full use of it. This can be done by building willingness in employees to work. This will help the enterprise in securing best possible utilization of resources. II. Leads to achievement of organizational
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