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Chapter Eight. Improving Performance with feedback, Rewards, and Positive Reinforcement. Team Moai: Jennifer Bradley, Lindsey Thompson, Derek Bronken, Kelly Clayton, Andrew Stephens. Instructional Clarifies or teaches new behavior.
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Chapter Eight Improving Performance with feedback, Rewards, and Positive Reinforcement Team Moai: Jennifer Bradley, Lindsey Thompson, Derek Bronken, Kelly Clayton, Andrew Stephens
Instructional Clarifies or teaches new behavior Feedback’s Two FunctionsFeedback ~ Objective information about performance Motivational • Serves as or promises award • Can be enhanced by specificity of goals and feedback
3 Sources of Feedback Others Task Self
Tend to remember Curbs motivation Easier to deliver Tend not to remember Respond by improvement Requires methodical delivery Can damage self-efficacy Positive & Negative
Upward Employees evaluate boss 360-Degree Comparison of anonymous feedback from one’s peers with self-perceptions Unconventional Approaches
Why Feedback Often Fails • Feedback is used to punish, embarrass, or put down employees • Those receiving feel that feedback is irrelevant to their work • Those receiving feedback believe it relates to matters beyond their control • Feedback information is provided too late to do any good • Employees complain about wasting too much time collecting and recording feedback data • Feedback recipients complain about feedback being too complex or difficult to understand
Types of Rewards Extrinsic Intrinsic Reward Norms Profit maximization Equity Equality Need Organizational Rewards Systems
Distribution Criteria • Three general criteria • Performance: Results • Performance: Actions and behaviors • Non performance considerations • Pay for performance (incentive pay)
Reinforcement • Contingent Consequences • Positive Reinforcement • Negative Reinforcement • Punishment • Extinction Thorndike’s Law of Effect Skinner’s Model Respondent Behavior Operant Behavior
Schedules Of Reinforcement • Continuous Reinforcement • Intermittent Reinforcement • Fixed/Variable Ratio • Fixed/Variable Interval • Shaping Behavior with Positive Reinforcement • Shaping Job Behavior Effectively