Examine a Content Theory or Process Theory below and its Perspective on Motivation.
Content Theories: Emphasize the needs that motivate people.
• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
• Alderfer’s ERG Theory
• Herzberg’s Two-Factory Theory
• McClelland’s Acquired Needs Theory
Process Theories: Explain how people select behavioral actions to meet their needs and determine whether their choices were successful.
• Locke’s Goal-Setting Theory
• Adams’s Equity Theory
• Vroom’s Expectancy Theory
