Discuss sensation, value and belief.
Sensation
Sensation can be defined as individual’s capacity to sense the world. Each and every motivated individual senses the world, interprets it, responds to it and reacts to the results of his own responses. Every individual has capacity to sense. How he/she senses these things or in which way he senses these things affect his behavior. For example, if an individual senses cold, his behavior is in regard to want of warm clothes. Similarly inside the organization, how the employee sense the environment mould their behavior. Sensation has three factors to work namely: stimulus, receptor and nervous system. Stimulus are the inputs that are sensed and received by the receptor organ and transmitted to the nervous system for further processing to draw out the meaningful result.
Values
Value is a framework of personal philosophy which governs and influences the individual’s reactions and responses to any situations. In other words, value refers to the worth or excellence or the degree of worth ascribed to an object. Values represent basic convictions of an individual as to what is right, good or desirable; they imply enduring conviction and carry moral flavor. There may be set of values which form a value system. This system represents an order of priority of individual values in relation to their relative significance. It can be ascertained by assessing the relative significance assigned by an individual to varied objects such as freedom, pleasure, sell-respect honesty, obedience and equality. Culture is a source of values. It contains as well as reinforces them. People learn to include values from their parents, teachers, friends, media and all those whom they respect and thus imitate them.
Belief
Belief is an important factor causing individual behavior variation. Belief can be based on knowledge, opinion and faith. They are acquired from parents, teachers, peer, reference group member, etc. They assign meaning to individual’s day-to-day perceptions and activities and serve in attempted solution of varied goals. An individual’s beliefs also exert a vital impact on his motivation in two ways:
1.He/she must believe that he is capable of performing the acts, which the organization expects of him/her.
2.He/she must believe that performance of acts desired by the organization will have positive outcomes for him/her personally.
