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Week 7 Assignment: A Theoretical Framework

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A Theoretical Framework

Several theories have been conceptualized in the past on the concept of employees’ wellbeing and health. Studies have liked the deterioration of employee health and wellbeing on lack or reduced motivation in the organization or among employees in the organization. In most cases, the theories that have been used to study employees’ health and wellbeing in connection to motivation are naturally content and process theories. Process theories are focused on studying the needs of the employees while process theories are focused on understanding the behaviors of the employees. This study will investigate both the needs and the behaviors of the employees based on the variables in the research topic.

According to a study that was done by Abbot and Doucouliagos (2003), most of the content theories investigates the incentives, necessities and the basic elements of the job that contribute to human contentment. They also focus on understanding the basic factor in the organization that influences the conduct of the employees. Some of the commonly known content theories include Herzberg’s two-factor theory, McClelland’s theory, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory, and Alderfer’s ERG theory. This study will employ McClelland’s theory, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory to understand the needs of the employees in this study. Similarly, Burns and Others (2015) argues that process theories are the kind of theories that investigate and explains factors that stimulate, direct, maintain and stop employees’ behaviors in an organizational perspective. There are four types of process theories and they include Expectancy, Equity, Reinforcement, and Goal setting theories. However, based on the goals and objectives of this study, expectancy and equity theories will be used alongside the identified content theories.

References

Abbott, M. & Doucouliagos, C. (2003). The efficiency of Australian universities: A data envelopment analysis. Economics of Education Review, 22(1), 89-97

Burns, A. J., Roberts, T. L., Posey, C., Bennett, R. J. & Courtney, J. F. (2015). Assessing the role of security education, training, and awareness on insiders' security-related behavior: An expectancy theory approach. In: System Sciences (HICSS), 2015 48th Hawaii International Conference.

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