PSY 320 Annotated Bibliography and Analysis

Annotated Bibliography

Clark, D. (1997). Big dog & little dog's performance juxtaposition. Retrieved from http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/leader.html

Part one of this website provides articles and activities pertinent to understanding and applying motivational theory within management scenarios. The website provides links to articles on how to think like a leader. It also provides materials on the concepts of leadership, leading: which includes basic skills within leadership; like goal setting, supervision, and inspiring employees. The website has a link to a framework in which an individual can create a model for taking leadership. The website also includes two links on how human behavior relates to motivation using theories such as Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, Herzberg's Hygiene and Motivational Factors, and McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y. It includes other theories of motivation applied to managerial skill sets of motivation to include; Alderfer's Existence/Relatedness/Growth (ERG) and Vroom's Expectancy Theory. The website details how to do counseling and performance appraisal, the different leadership styles, and characters and traits of good leaders. This website also details ethics in leadership and an after action review; which entails steps, guidelines, and strategies for captivating lessons.

Part two of this website also entails leadership philosophies to include: team membership modeling, the path-goal theory of leadership, transformational leadership, social leadership authentic leadership and social influence, and servant leadership.

Part three of this web site includes team leadership information. Part three entails information on growing a team, matrix teams, and team leadership models.

Part fourth of this website includes advanced leadership skills. This part of the website details horizontal leadership: flattening the organization, the four pillars of leadership; which include leadership, management, command, and control, organizational behavior, diversity, diversity continuum, change, learning organization, mentoring, visioning, sensemaking, strategies and tactics, and the OODS loop; which is the decision making cycle of observation, orientation, decision making, and action.

Part five of the website includes articles on supporting skills. The supporting skills part of the website includes information on time management, meetings, communication, and presentations.

Enock, K. (2006). Basic management models and theories associated with motivation and leadership and be able to apply them to practical situations and problems. Retrieved from http://www.healthknowledge.org.uk/public-health-textbook/organisation-management/5c-management-change/basic-management-models.

This public health textbook covers in the section listed on this URL; information on Classical Management Theory, Human Relations Theory, Neo-Human Relations Theory, and System Theory. This section of the text includes information relevant to three of the well-known writers on management: Henri Fayol, FW Taylor, and Max Weber. The textbook also includes this section on the Elton Mayo: Hawthorns studies, which focus on the relationship between the employer and the employee to include information on motivation, group motivation, and leadership. The third piece of information this text includes is the motivation theories associated with Maslow, McGregor, Likert, and Argyris. Fourth the text deciphers information on system theories and the dynamics of system theories to include information about such theories as General Systems Theory: Ludwig von Bertalanffy, cybernetics: W. Ross Ashby, Norbert Wiener, catastrophe theory: René Thom, E.C. Zeeman, chaos theory: David Ruelle, Edward Lorenz, Mitchell Feigenbaum, Steve Smale, James A. Yorke; and complex adaptive systems (CAS): John H. Holland, Murray Gell-Mann, Harold Morowitz, W. Brian Arthur. Fifth this text also includes a minimal amount of information concerning contingency theories.

Meek, J. (2013, October). The relationship between employee motivation and delegation. ICMI. Retrieved from http://www.icmi.com/Resources/People-Management/2013/10/The-Relationship-Between-Employee-Motivation-and-Delegation

The relationship between employee motivation and delegation article defines several types of motivation that could be useful within the workplace. The article includes Herzberg's Motivation-Hygiene Theory, Maslow's Theory of Motivation as well as Vroom's Expectancy Theory of Motivation. In this article, it discusses how the adaptation of motivational theories has been combined or used together to motivate employees. The article also suggests that it is possible to apply additional cognitive models to employee motivation theories to obtain an expected outcome of motivation. The article also discusses how leadership plays a role in the motivation of employees and transformational leadership theories to human motivation within the workplace. The article also defines how transactional leadership can define additional workplace motivation using theories such as The Contingency theory and the normative decision-making model.

Motivation and Motivation Theory. (2015). In Reference for business: Encyclopedia of business, 2nd ed. Retrieved from http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/management/Mar-No/Motivation-and-Motivation-Theory.html

This encyclopedia reference describes the historical development of motivation, major content theories, and major process theories associated with workplace motivation. The theories included in this reference are Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, Alderfer's ERG Theory, Herzberg's Motivator-Hygiene Theory, and McClelland's Learned Needs Theory. The major process theories discussed in this reference include Expectancy Theory, Equity Theory, Goal-Setting Theory, and Reinforcement Theory.