Case Study: Expectancy Theory Of Motivation?

NUMMI is a company that run in manufacturing vehicles. It was opened in 1965 and closed in 1982 because of labor-management conflict, the grievance remained unresolved and over 6000 workers were lost their jobs . They reopened the manufacture in 1984 with New United Manufacturing, Inc (NUMMI-pronounce “new me”) in agreement to form 50/50 joint venture with a formed of separate legal entity . They was built both GM and Toyota vehicles in Fremont plants . After , the contract that being formed between new management team and UAW(United Auto Workers ) they decided to given first chance to former plant employees on new job and abandoning the seniority rights and specialization on some job classification. No-strike and no-layoff agreement was

There are three key components that connected each other involve : E-to-P expectancy ,P-to-E expectancy , and Valence (Hellriegel & Scolum 2011) . E-to-P expectancy is the possibility of individual’s assumption and belief that the workers have the effort and capable achieve some particular level of performance successfully . The new management system NUMMI was applying and ensure that the workers will training , job allocation and rotation which are has purpose to shown that the leader have belief toward the workers to performed their job (Greenberg 2011). Gary Convis as the senior president of NUMMI have willingness toward his workers to “do more than just complete your job and then go home” which he was expecting his workers are able to maximizes their capability to perform the job accurately Moreover , he always believes on “buys the hearts of people” in which condition he has belief that to achieve well-performing result there will be worth to payoff (Berger 2009) , this belief has connected to P-to-O expectancies. Last component of this theory is Outcomes valence is involve expected value will be earn from resulting desired outcomes to be achieved (Snead & Harrell 1994) . In this case NUMMI giving bonuses as the reward for all employees based on their quality , safety and productivity improvements through this action the employees are expected can directly feel benefit from performing and completed the production