Han Sol is studying employee motivation. She develops an interest in the expectancy theory, which seeks to explain how cognitive processes affect the impact of salary or other rewards of employee behavior. The main assumption of this theory is that
A. behavior at work is affected by workers' intentions to achieve specific goals.
B. employees behave in accordance with what results they anticipate their actions to bring and how much they value those results.
C. people must at least partially satisfy lower level needs before they will be motivated by higher level goals.
D. the most motivating goals tend to be those that are challenging but not so difficult as to be impossible.
Answer: B
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a) hormones. b) pheromones. c) neuromodulators. d) neurotransmitters.
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