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keep seeing these conversations about “employees just don’t want to work anymore” or “employees don’t work hard enough”. I thought we had moved past such comments but obviously we haven’t. So, it might be helpful to use a relatively well-known theory to help
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xplain what might be happening. Expectancy theory (also known as Vroom’s Theory) basically says there are three aspects to employee motivatio
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: valence, expectancy, and instrumentality. The first component is expectancy, which is the belief that the performance / goal is attainable. Think of it as self-efficacy – “I can do this.” If an employee feels that the