ADLWPW AREA 2 – Overview and Learning Objectives

Area 2 Overview

Keeping the foundational information from Area 1 about how human beings take in and make sense of information, in this section we will examine behaviorally based leadership theories that apply to the leader-follower relationship.

AREA LEARNING OBJECTIVE: The participant will evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of themselves and their organization on leader-follower interactions to include areas of high performance and identifying areas for improvement in a writing assignment shared with peers.

Lesson 3: Motivational Theories

In lesson three, we will discuss

• Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
• Expectancy theory of motivation
• Goal setting as a motivational theory

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• LO1: Participants will be able to match intrinsic and extrinsic motivation with the appropriate definition in a knowledge check quiz.
• LO2: Participants can correctly evaluate the source of a lack of motivation to one of the three components of the expectancy theory in a short case study.
• LO3: Participants can identify motivational goals from a list in a knowledge check quiz.
• LO4: At the end of this lesson, participants will be able to evaluate their own organization’s improper use of demotivating goals that may be affecting motivation through participation in a discussion question.

Lesson 4: Equity Theory

In lesson four, we will discuss

• Equity theory

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• LO1: Participants can match the components of procedural justice related to the Equity theory in a knowledge check quiz.
• LO2: Participants can match a follower’s behavioral reaction to inequity to one of the six most common reactions provided in the instruction.
• LO3: At the end of this lesson, participants will be able to identify practices within their own organizations that are most likely to generate equity issues through participation in a discussion question.

Lesson 5: Motivation Through Consequences

In lesson five, we will discuss

• Operant conditioning
• Rewards, punishments, penalties, and negative reinforcement
• Observational learning

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• LO1: Participants can correctly match leader strategies that can be applied in operant conditioning to a list of leader behaviors in a second list.
• LO2: Participants can categorize leader strategies into groups that likely increase future behaviors and groups that likely decrease future behaviors in a knowledge check quiz.
• LO3: At the end of this lesson, participants will be able to evaluate the effectiveness of their own organization’s use of operant conditioning strategies through participation in a discussion question.

Lesson 6: Growth Needs & Rewards

In lesson six, we will discuss

• Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
• Identifying growth needs
• Hackman & Oldham’s chart for High Growth Needs followers

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• LO1: Participants can rank each level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs from lowest level needs to the highest level needs.
• LO2: In a brief scenario, participants can evaluate which of the three critical psychological states is missing for a high growth need individual based on their comments.
• LO3: At the end of this lesson, participants will be able to classify their own growth needs at work through participation in a discussion question.

Lesson 7: Followership

In lesson seven, we will discuss

• Kelley’s Followership theory
• Categorizing and influencing follower behavior
• Upward Leadership

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• LO1: Participants can correctly categorize each of Kelley’s Followership Styles as a combination of (low to high) engagement in the organizational mission and (low to high) independent, critical thought.
• LO2: Participants can identify key strategies for leaders to create a culture of upward leadership through a knowledge check question.
• LO3: At the end of this lesson, participants will be able to compare and contrast different followership styles and their impact on the organization through participation in a discussion question.