An Employee's Perception About the Extent to Which Her Effort

question 35

Multiple Choice

An employee's perception about the extent to which her effort will result in a given level of her performance is known as:

• A)Valence
• B)Expectancy
• C)Instrumentality
• D)Equity
• E)Inequity

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Definitions:

Defense Mechanisms

Psychological strategies unconsciously used by individuals to protect themselves from anxiety and to manage emotional conflict and internal or external stressors.

Psychosexual Stages

A Freudian theory describing the stages of a child's development, each characterized by the erogenous zone that is the source of the child's psychosexual energy.

Fixations

Persistent focus on an earlier psychosexual stage due to unresolved conflicts, as per Freudian theory.

Oedipus Complex

A psychoanalytic theory positing children's unconscious desire for the opposite-sex parent and jealousy towards the same-sex parent.