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Deployment of energy is often evidence of motivation

Biological psychology of drives

• Claude Bernard
• Charles Darwin
• Walter Cannon

Stress

Stress works in a strange way to motivate, like reverse psychology. When under stress and difficult situations, a person feels pressured. This may trigger feelings of under-achieving, which results in a reverse mindset, to strive to achieve. This is almost sub-conscious. The net amount motivation under stress may motivate a person to work harder in order to "compensate" for his feelings.

Affiliation

-this is the desire to connect or associate oneself with others.

Scientific Management

Scientific management is a philosophy and set of methods that stressed the scientific study and organization of work at operational level for improving efficiency. It is associated with Frederick Winslow Taylor who is called the “father of Scientific Management.”

Scientific Management has contributed the following techniques that are used even today:

• Scientific method of doing work.
• Planning tasks.
• Standardization.
• Specialization and division of labour.

See also

• Behavior
• Equity theory
• Human behavior
• Humanistic psychology
• Human Potential Movement
• Organizational behavior
• Personality
• Preference
• Successories
• Victor Vroom
• operant conditioning
• Alfie Kohn (ISBN 0-618-00181-6)

References

• Deci, E. L., & Ryan, R. M. "Intrinsic motivation and self-determination in human behavior". New York: Plenum, 1985.
• Ormond, Jeanne Ellis. "Educational Psychology: Developing Learners" Fourth Edition. Merrill Prentice Hall, 2003.
• Spevak, P. A., Ph.D. & Karinch. "Empowering Underachievers" First Edition. New Horizon Press, 2000.