This presentation discusses achievement motivation and how it develops from childhood through adulthood. It explores intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, the need for achievement, and how parents can shape a child's drive for achievement through encouragement, rewards, alternative solutions, and progressing to higher levels of tasks. In the workplace, setting meaningful, specific, and effective goals along with providing independence, challenges, and rewards can motivate employees and result in benefits like lower turnover and increased productivity for employers. Achievement and subjective wellbeing are also connected, as one's reaction to life events depends on their baseline level of wellbeing and what they view as most or least important.

1. Motivation
& Emotion
Presenter:
Rida Khan

2. Achievement Motivation
• Why do some people try harder than others to succeed?
• Intrinsic/Extrinsic motivation
• Preference for tasks that strengthen worth

3. Need for achievement
• Need achievement
• Individual Differences: high/low achievement needs
• Learning goals
• Performance goals

5. Development of achievement motivation
• Childhood – genetic & environmental influences
• Study – parents’ support on children’s motivation
- encouragement for tough tasks
- rewards for success
- alternative solutions instead of complaints
- progress to higher level

6. • Parents shape drive for achievement
• Cultural factors: observe surroundings
• Achievement experiences: variation; sociocultural factors; self-efficacious
people

7. Achievement & success in workplace
• Employee motivation/demotivation
• Employees happy when trusted with goals
• Goals – meaningful, specific and effective
• Independence, challenges, rewards motivate
• Employers: low turnover, less absences, productivity

8. Achievement and subjective wellbeing
• Subjective wellbeing; tough life
• Reaction to events depends on moods
• Baseline level of subjective wellbeing
• Least/most important things in life
• Deficiency orientation