PART 3 FINALS

• If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life

  -Abraham Maslow
• Success does not happen. It is not enough to have goals or ambitions
• Success is the outcome of hard work and determination that must be shaped over a long proces
• GOAL

  • Is the object toward which the behavior is directed, usually within a specified period of time
  • For Edwin Locke & Gary Latham (2006), goaldirect attention, effort, and actions.
• SHORT-TERM GOALS

  ◦ Goals that can be achieve in a day, week, or year.
• LONG-TERM GOALS

  ◦ Goals that are usually achieved over a year or more.
• VALUES

  ◦ Gives direction to behavior.

  ◦ Those which the person considers personally important and worthy.

  ◦ Could be the basis for what is desirable, correct, and good
• NEED

  • Activate and direct behavior.
• DRIVE REDUCTION THEORY

  • Humans are motivated to satisfy needs in order to maintain homeostatis or internal equilibrium.
  • Unmet needs will cause a state of bodily tension and, consequently, homeostatis is disturbed.
• ABRAHAM MASLOW’S HIERARCHY OF NEED

  • Once the biological needs are satisfied, safety or security needs become important, such as the need to be safe from danger, illness, and threat.
• Self-actualization refers to self-fulfillment or achievement of one’s potentialities.
• SELF-EFFICACY

  • The person’s belief that he/she can successfully perform behaviors that will produce desired effects (Albert Bandura).
• Fixed Mindset

  Believe that their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talents, are simply fixed traits.
• GROWTH MINDSET

  • Believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard-work.
• CAROL DWECK’S CATEGORIES OF MINDSET

  • People with fixed mindset worry about making mistakes.
  • They welcome challenges and seek critical feedback to help them learn
• Goal Setting is the process of improving work performance of individuals (Locke & Latham, 2006
• S.M.A.R.T. embodies the fundamental practices necessary for achieving increased motivation (Rubin, 2002)