Title: 6 Main Factors that affect Individual Performance
Headings: 6 Main Factors that affect Individual Performance
6 Main Factors that affect Individual Performance
Factor # 1. Motivation:
Factor # 2. Competence:
Based on several investigations, Weiner proposed that persistence in activity or action will result if:
Factor # 3. Ability:
Factor # 4. Role Perception:
Factor # 5. Resources:
Factor # 6. Work Place Environment:
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Motivation helps in improving job performance in the following ways:
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Content: Individual performance is also affected by his competence to perform the job. Competence means the extent to which a person regards himself capable of performing the job. It indicates that a person has control of events occurring within and outside the organization rather that the events have control over him. People who control the events have internal locus of control and those who are affected by events beyond their control have external locus of control Competent people perform better than others and have internal locus of control. Besides motivation, competence is also, thus, an important contributor to individual performance. The concept of locus of control refers to the perception of contingencies between action and to what extent action produces an outcome. Those who have high perception of such contingencies (believe that their actions produce the outcomes) are said to be “internal” (with internal locus of control), and those who have low perceptions of contingencies (believe that the outcomes are not produced by their actions) are said to be “external” (with external locus of control. A most relevant concept in this context is that of causal attribution by Weiner. He added another dimension to locus of control, this is, perception of causal attributions; whether a person attributes the outcome to internal or external “causes”.