Motivation Theories




Motivation Theories

•Motivation is a state of mind that drives a person to work in a certain way to achieve desired goals.

•Motivation theories provide a great understanding of how people behave and what motivates them.

  • Intrinsic motivation vs. extrinsic motivation

  • The pain pleasure principle

  • Maslow’s Need Hierarchy Theory: Maslow’s theory is based on human needs.

  • Herzberg’s Motivation Hygiene Theory: The psychologist Frederick Herzberg extended the work of Maslow and proposed a new motivation theory popularly known as the Two-Factor Theory.

  • McClelland’s Need Theory: McClelland believed that needs are learned or acquired by the kinds of events people experienced in their environment and culture.

  • Vroom’s Expectancy Theory: One of the most widely accepted explanations of motivation is offered by Victor Vroom in his Expectancy Theory

  • Locke’s Goal-Setting Theory: In the 1960s, Edwin Locke put forward the Goal-setting theory of motivation.

  • Skinner’s Reinforcement Theory of Motivation: According to the theory, there are four factors that influence motivation with a schedule.

  • •Positive reinforcement

    •Negative reinforcement

    •Punishment

    •Extinction

  • Bandura’s Self-Efficacy Theory of Motivation: The Self-Efficacy Theory is a task-specific way of thinking about motivation.

  • Incentive Theory of Motivation: The incentive theory suggests that motivation is largely fueled by the prospect of an external reward or incentive.

  • Drive-Reduction Theory: The drive reduction theory of motivation became popular in the 1940s as a way to explain behavior, learning, and motivation.

  • How to Increase your motivation? Learning about motivation helps us understand where motivation comes from, why it changes and what increases it.

Learn the science behind motivation

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What you will learn
  • How to be motivated?
  • Where does motivation come from?
  • Different types of motivation

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Level: Beginner Level

Duration: 32 mins

Instructor: Shahrzad Khosravi


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