Boss offers an employee a promotion which has huge increase in salary along with a new title. It also requires employee to work ten hours more per week along with shifting to a remote place. It is an example of which one of the following?
Approach - Avoidance conflict
Concept: A motivational conflict is classified by whether the goal in front of the person is attractive (approach) or unattractive (avoidance), and by how many goals are involved.
Here a single option - the promotion - carries both attractive and unattractive features at the same time: a higher salary and a new title pull the employee towards it (approach), while ten extra hours of work each week and a move to a remote place push the employee away from it (avoidance).
When one and the same goal has both positive and negative aspects, the person is in an approach-avoidance conflict. A everyday parallel is accepting a dream job that requires relocating far from family - one goal, pulling and pushing at once.
Option check: Approach-approach means choosing between two attractive options, and avoidance-avoidance means choosing between two unattractive options; neither fits, because here there is a single goal, not two. 'Approach conflict' alone is not the standard label for this pull-and-push situation, so it too is ruled out.
Hence this is an example of an approach-avoidance conflict.
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Important Questions from Motivation
- Match List I with List Il related to content Theories of Motivation
List I (Exponent) List II (Theory) (a) Abraham Maslow (i) Two-factor Theory (b) Herzberg (ii) Achievement Theory (c) Aldufer (iii) Need Hierarchy Theory (d) Mcclelland (iv) ERG Theory - Mechanistic view of motivation can be characterised as :
(a) S-O-R explanation.
(b) Direction of behaviour is determined by bonds between stimulus and response or habits.
(c) Probability of elicitation of various habits depend upon prior reinforcement contingencies.
(d) Behaviour once elicited persists until the removal of sustaining stimuli. - Which of the following sequence is correct in case of steps in a goal-setting program for students ?
- According to self-determination theory ______ and _____ form the basis for intrinsic motivation.
Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer by choosing from the codes given below :
List – I
(Concept)List – II
(Explanation)a. Fixed Action Pattern i. When two incompatible response tendencies are simultaneously aroused, the organisms may display behaviours that appear to be irrelevant to the situation. b. Displacement Activity ii. Highly stereotyped responses that are assumed to be genetically programmed reactions that occur in the presence of a particular ‘sign’ stimulus. c. Hedonic Bias iii. A state in which a person performs an action because the act itself is satisfying or rewarding internally. d. Intrinsic motivation iv. Tendency to take more credit for success than to take responsibility for failure.
