Motivational theories are split into two groups as process and content theories.

Motivational theories also explain how learners' goals affect the way they engage with academic tasks.

Some motivational theories suggest that the boredom and alienation caused by the division of labour can actually cause efficiency to fall.

The summer program is an outgrowth of training in motivational theories and methods given to about 15 teachers and administrators from the students' school districts.

The terms drive theory and drive reduction theory refer to a diverse set of motivational theories in psychology.

Douglas McGregor proposed two different motivational theories.

No matter the reasons, even the justifications; no matter the rationalizations, filled with motivational theories and diplomatic convolutions.

In terms of explaining reasons for which individuals join terrorist groups, motivational theories such as need for power and need for affiliation intimacy are suggested.

Social psychologist Ziva Kunda combines the cognitive and motivational theories, arguing that motivation creates the bias, but cognitive factors determine the size of the effect.

This lack of research is especially glaring considering the golem effect is heavily involved with other established motivational theories and organizational behavior concepts such as self-efficacy, leader-member exchange, and transformational leadership.

This model, which dovetails elements of cognitive and motivational theories, postulates that calculating the value of a sure gain takes much less cognitive effort than that required to select a risky gain.

Introduced in a 2006 Academy of Management Review article, it synthesizes into a single formulation the primary aspects of several other major motivational theories, including Incentive Theory, Drive Theory, Need Theory, Self-Efficacy and Goal Setting.

When social scientists, management consultants, and public-opinion experts speak about the "new breed of employees," the new motivational theories, the new entitlements and rights attitudes, what they are really describing are the values of the demographic cohort that exploded on college campuses in the late 1960s and 1970s.

With the improvements in the behavioral research and theories, psychologists started looking at how people reacted to rewards and what motivated them to do what they were doing, and as a result of this, psychologists started creating motivational theories, which is very closely affiliated with reward management.