*Coercive, political, and extrinsic intersect with one another in many different ways. As Hoy and Miskel explain in the text Educational Administration. Coercive ia a set of procedures that punishes and attempts to force reluctant subordinates to comply. Rules and procedures become substitutes for commitment rather than compliments to it. Instead of giving committed employees access to accumulated organizational learning and best-practice guidelines, coercive procedures are designed to force compliance and extract recalcitrant effort. In order to get the other colleagues to comply or have them get motivated to follow through, they will then use politics to help get them through. Politics is a game that organizational participants play. The games are complex, with intricate and subtle tactics played according to the rules. Some of the rules are explicit; others are ever-changing. But the collection of rules, in effect, defines the games. First, rules establish position, the paths by which people gain access to positions, the power of each position, and the action channels. Second, rules constrict the range of decisions and actions that are acceptable. Third, rules can sanction such moves as bargaining, coalitions, persuasion, deceit, bluff, and threat while making moves illegal, immoral, or inappropriate. Some people do not care what they do to get the end result that they are striving for. Extrinsic is based on rewards and punishment. We act to earn a good grade or to get a merit increase or to get promoted or to avoid a grievance. We are not interested in the activity for its own sake, but rather for what the activity will bring us. Extrinsic motivation is a behavioral perspective on motivation because it explains motivation and behavior in terms of rewards and punishment. Extrinsic motivation stimulates us to act with incentives and disincentives.The three items discussed intersect one another to get the same end goal for each one. You have to be able to play the game of politics to get what you want. It can become a game to get the path that they choose for you. If your subordinate is asking to do something that you may or may not agree with, in order for you to gain their “trust” you do what they ask you to do. When being coerced a direct or indirect threat it is made to get you to do what they want. It is extrinsic, as it uses an external motivator rather than seeking to really change the person’s mind. When doing this, it requires you have the power to cause the other person discomfort. Coercion is promising punishment or discomfort if the request is not complied with. This punishment may result in the person disliking you or even seeking out revenge. Which makes coercion the least desired method, although it can have immediate obedience. An example can be, “If you do not get your grade level on board to use this reading series, I will make you have recess duty all year.”There was a research done by Lepper, Greene and Nisbett (1973), they asked two groups of children to do the same drawing. One group was promised a medal for their work and the other group was promised nothing. On a return visit, the groups were given paper and crayons and what they did was observed. The group who had been give the medal for drawing previously spent significantly less time drawing as compared with the no reward group. With this motivation it usually ends up with people doing less work in the end. They have an expectation to get something in return for doing their work. It turns something that is pleasurable into work. * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: < http://listserv.ohio.edu/pipermail/ous-lp-rp13/attachments/20180628/af2f75bc/attachment.html >
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