What is motivation? Explain the three key elements of motivation.
第1题
Memory is said to be stored in the brain as a "memory trace (记忆痕) ". What makes up this trace is not known. Some scientists believe that certain chemical substances may carry certain memories. For example, one substance, when given to rats, causes them to fear the dark.
Other research into memory has to do with how the brain works. Psychologists use three means to find out bow a person remembers. For example, give a person a grocery list. Let the person memorize the list, then put it away. The most natural way to find out how much a person remembers of the grocery list is to ask what he or she remembers. This is called the method of recall. Another method is called recognition. Give the person another grocery list. Ask him or her to choose items on the first list from the items that are on only the second list. Often a person will be able to recognize things that he or she cannot recall. A third method of finding how much a person remembers is called relearning. Here the person is asked to read over the first list. The person will probably learn the list the second time faster than he did the first time. The difference in the time it takes to relearn the list is thought of as measure of how much a person has remembered.
One way of remembering something is to repeat it many times. Interest is very important. Boring lists of facts are much more difficult to remember than something that we understand and are interested in. Motivation, or wanting to do something, is also important. Motivation is linked with reward. For example, a hungry animal quickly learns how to do something if that action gets the animal food. In humans, wanting to learn is often motivation. The praise of a teacher or the knowledge that an answer is correct is rewarding.
We can learn from the 2nd paragraph that ______.
A.bad memories may cause rats to fear the dark
B.it is hard to tell what a memory trace consists of
C.chemical substances carry certain memories
D.memory is stored in the brain as a substance
第2题
What is the course in the passage about?
A.Investigation.
B.Career interests.
C.Public relation.
D.Public affair.
第3题
A.generating
B.effective
C.motivation
D.creative
第4题
(b) How can Maslow’s theory be applied to the motivation of staff? (5 marks)
第5题
5 All managers need to understand the importance of motivation in the workplace.
Required:
(a) Explain the ‘content theory’ of motivation. (5 marks)
第6题
A good way to train an animal to do something quickly is to ______.
A.make the action easy
B.praise it in words
C.reward it with food
D.weaken its motivation
第7题
A.It increases motivation
B.It is less time consuming
C.It increases acceptance
D.The budgets produced are more attainable
第8题
AlphaGo’s victory over Go(围棋 )champion Lee Se-dol reportedly shocked artificial intelligence experts, who thought such an event was 10 to 15 years away. But if the timing was a surprise, the outcome was not. On the contrary, it was inevitable and entirely foreseeable.
Playing complex games is precisely what computers do supremely well. Just as they beat the world champions at checkers(跳棋)and then chess, they were destined to beat the champion at Go. Yet I don’t believe, as some do, that human defeats like this one presage an era of mass unemployment in which awesomely able computers leave most of us with nothing to do. Advancing technology will profoundly change the nature of high-value human skills and that is threatening, but we aren’t doomed.
The skills of deep human interaction, the abilities to manage the exchanges that occur only between people, will only become more valuable. Three of these skills stand out: The first, the foundation of the rest, is empathy, which is more than just feeling someone else’s pain. It’s the ability to perceive what another person is thinking or feeling, and to respond in an appropriate way.
The second is creative problem-solving in groups. Research on group effectiveness shows that the key isn’t team cohesion or motivation or even the smartest member’s IQ; rather, it’s the social sensitivity of the members, their ability to read one another and keep anyone from dominating.
The third critical ability, somewhat surprisingly, is storytelling, which has not traditionally been valued by organizations. Charts, graphs and data analysis will continue to be important, but that’s exactly what technology does so well. To change people’s minds or inspire them to act, tell them a story.
These skills, though basic to our humanity, are fundamentally different from the skills that have been the basis of economic progress for most of human history, logic, knowledge and analysis, which we learned from textbooks and in classrooms. By contrast, the skills of deep human interaction address the often irrational reality of how human beings behave, and we find them not in textbooks but inside ourselves. As computers master ever more complexity, that’s where we’ll find the source of our continued value.
According to the author, AlphaGo’s victory_____.
A.could have happened earlier
B.came as a pleasant surprise
C.was an expected result
D.was more a matter of luck
The word “presage”(Para. 2) is closest in meaning to“ _____”.A.survive
B.suffer
C.invent
D.predict
Which of the following is the most fundamental to human interaction?A.Social sensitivity of group members to understand each other.
B.Strong ability to share people’s feelings and respond.
C.Team spirit to make sure that everyone is involved.
D.Inspirational storytelling to motivate people to act.
According to the author, the skills of deep human interaction .A.are the source of true human values in the future
B.can work with knowledge to make the world better
C.are similar to the skills of human logic and analysis
D.can be learned from textbooks and in classrooms
What is the author’s attitude towards the human future in the face of technology?A.Unclear
B.Confused
C.Worried
D.Optimistic
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第9题
been with the company for some time, there has been a high level of employee turnover.
However, an unhappy atmosphere has been apparent for some time. There has been a number of instances ofarguments between the staff, friction between different departments, disturbance, low morale, poor production and general unrest, made worse recently by a decline in business which may lead to staff reduction and redundancy. Poor pay is leading to family problems that are affecting the commitment and motivation of the employees.
The business was recently sold to the new owner, Rebecca Stonewall. She is concerned that the negative atmosphere she has found will harm the prospects of the business and is determined to address the issues that have become apparent.
She has therefore decided that it is time to take account of opinions and views of the employees in an attempt both to identify the problems and to resolve them. She has appointed external counsellors since she thinks that a programme of individual counselling might be appropriate and is also of the opinion that some form. of different or improved approach to motivation might be the answer to the problems at Bailey’s.
Required:
(a) Define the role that the external counsellor must fulfil at Bailey’s. (3 marks)
第10题
(a) The senior management of Universal University (UU) intend to develop both quantitative and qualitative
measures of performance in relation to lecturing staff.
As part of UU’s mission to provide ‘quality education’ to its students, lecturers are encouraged to apply their skill and judgement in the creation, delivery and assessment aspects of the learning process.
Academic staff are organised on a departmental basis. Each department is expected to achieve and improve on targets in the achievement of its role. As part of their development both personally and as departmental members, staff are encouraged to participate fully in research publication, new course design and innovation in teaching and learning methods.
Academic staff have differing views on whether action on their part in pursuing aspects of such goals is
compatible with their personal goals.
Required:
Using the above scenario, discuss in relation to the lecturing staff within (UU) each of the following:
(i) The application of Agency Theory to staff, in their role as agents and provide examples of the
observability of their role in relation to outcomes and effort;
(ii) The application of Expectancy Theory with specific reference to the relationship between:
– strength of motivation to do (X);
– strength of preference for outcome (Y);
– expectation that doing (X) will result in (Y). (12 marks)
(b) ‘Hard Accountability’ is deemed to apply to lecturing staff in each of three specific areas as follows:
(i) accounting for the numbers;
(ii) ensuring the numbers are accounted for;
(iii) being held accountable for events and circumstances leading to the numbers.
Required:
Describe how each of the areas (b)(i) to (iii) may be applied at UU and critically evaluate this approach to
performance measurement in the context of the scenario described above. (8 marks)