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: 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”. Weiner suggested a stability- variability dimension where both the internal and external causes can be either stable or variable, thus giving four categories of factors to which outcomes can be attributed. ADVERTISEMENTS: This is shown in the Exhibit. Internal causes are either stable, which do not change easily (e.g., ability) or variable, those that can vary or change (e.g., effort). Similarly, the external causes are either stable (difficulty of a task), or variable (luck or chance).