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Expectancy theory and its application to EDP professionals: a tentative view

Expectancy theory and its application to EDP professionals: a tentative view It is the goal of this paper to make some useful inferences about the motivation of EDP professionals. This paper assumes Expectancy Theory (Vroom, 1964, Porter & Lawler, 1968; Lawler, 1971) as the basic construct for the motivation model. Reviewing some recent research to determine specific components of the behavior of EDP professionals, the model and its application in this specific field is discussed. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM SIGCPR Computer Personnel Association for Computing Machinery

Expectancy theory and its application to EDP professionals: a tentative view

Ulrich, Walter E.
ACM SIGCPR Computer Personnel , Volume 5 (3-4) – Jan 1, 1976
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Copyright © 1976 by ACM Inc.
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0160-2497
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10.1145/1037127.1037128
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It is the goal of this paper to make some useful inferences about the motivation of EDP professionals. This paper assumes Expectancy Theory (Vroom, 1964, Porter & Lawler, 1968; Lawler, 1971) as the basic construct for the motivation model. Reviewing some recent research to determine specific components of the behavior of EDP professionals, the model and its application in this specific field is discussed.

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ACM SIGCPR Computer Personnel – Association for Computing Machinery

Published: Jan 1, 1976

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