What is the best way to motivate a salesforce? How can you systematically design a motivation system? | Motivation 3/2/99 Discussion Questions What is the best way to motivate a salesforce? How can you systematically design a motivation system? 3/2/99 Three Major Determinants of Motivation Environmental conditions The firm’s management policies compensation supervision task characteristics Personal characteristics of the salesperson 3/2/99 Motivation Session Objectives understand the components of motivation through the expectancy-value model relate management tools to components of the expectancy-value model, to use in influencing motivational levels consider how management style and the use of various “tools” influence motivation 3/2/99 Motivation Session Outline Locus of Control and Motivation Expectancy-Value Model of motivation what is it? Who cares? (implications of the model) Glengarry Glen Ross & the impact of the sales manager on motivation The impact of role stress 3/2/99 Locus of Control and Motivation Locus: External vs. internal attributions Stable vs. . | Motivation 3/2/99 Discussion Questions What is the best way to motivate a salesforce? How can you systematically design a motivation system? 3/2/99 Three Major Determinants of Motivation Environmental conditions The firm’s management policies compensation supervision task characteristics Personal characteristics of the salesperson 3/2/99 Motivation Session Objectives understand the components of motivation through the expectancy-value model relate management tools to components of the expectancy-value model, to use in influencing motivational levels consider how management style and the use of various “tools” influence motivation 3/2/99 Motivation Session Outline Locus of Control and Motivation Expectancy-Value Model of motivation what is it? Who cares? (implications of the model) Glengarry Glen Ross & the impact of the sales manager on motivation The impact of role stress 3/2/99 Locus of Control and Motivation Locus: External vs. internal attributions Stable vs. unstable attributions Examples: External Stable: External Unstable: Internal Stable: Internal Unstable: 3/2/99 The Expectancy-Value model Why are people motivated to initiate a task to choose a certain effort level to persist in a task Expectancy Principle: salespeople choose a level of effort based on the expected payoffs of alternative effort levels Most popular model of motivation (at least among sales force researchers) 3/2/99 Expectancy-Value Model in Notation Mj=Ej x Vj where: Mj=motivational drive to achieve level j of performance (. sales, number of new accounts etc.) Ej =beliefs about the effort to performance linkage: perceived chances of achieving level j of performance given effort Vj = overall subjective utility (valence or value) of achieving level j of performance 3/2/99 Examples: 3/2/99 Valence/Value: Vj Valence is a composite of the utility you derive from the suboutcomes (consequences) that accompany achieving level j of performance These might .
