Expectancy Theory
Victor Vroom's expectancy theory addresses a basic question: what determines the willingness of an individual to exert personal effort to work at tasks that contribute to the performance of the work and the organization? "Essentially, expectancy theory argues that the strength of a tendency to act in a certain way depends on the strength of an expectation that the act will be followed by a given outcome and on the attractiveness of that outcome to the individual" (Robbins, 2001, p. 117). The answer to that question is found in a person's beliefs regarding effort performance relationship and the outomes potentially associated witht different levels of performance accomplishment.
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