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Discussion week 4 (1) Explain how the concepts from Locke's goal setting theory can be incorporated into Vroom's expectancy theory. Going over the material in the text it is seems to me that Vroom's Expectancy Theory is directed and focused on job motivation within the work place. With Locke's goal setting theory is geared toward establishing insightful and productive goals, goals that are.
The Goal Setting Theory Goal Setting Theory was developed by Locke in 1968 to explain human behavior in specific work situations. The theory argues that goals and intentions are cognitive and willful.
Influenced by Likert's (1967) theory of leadership, Latham's doctoral dissertation, as was the case with Locke, was on goal setting, specifically the relative effectiveness of assigned versus participatively set goals for hourly paid unionized logging crews. The results showed that those in the participative condition set higher goals than those who were assigned goals.
Edwin A. Locke Introduced the theoretical approach to setting goals and building motivation, which can be directly applied to a professional setting. In fact, this type of goal-setting theory is one of the more useful motivational harries used in industrial and organizational psychology and management.
However, there are some implications of the Goal-setting Theory (Locke and Latham, 1990), mainly due with overuse of the above propositions. These implications are noted below: Setting goals which are too hard to achieve. This could lead to dissatisfaction in the workplace and lead to less results.
The opening essay of Essays of Elia, one of the rare topical essays of Lamb, was devoted to the South Sea House, the now dilapidated seat of the major and much publicized financial crash of the South Sea Company in 1720-21: “long since dissipated, or scattered into air at the blast of the breaking of that famous BUBBLE” (Lamb 1903, II, 2).
Thus this custom of firing houses continued, till in process of time, says my manuscript, a sage arose, like our Locke, who made a discovery, that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be cooked (burned, as they call it) without the necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it. Then first began the rude form of a gridiron.