effort, the state of being motivated
Note1: the best way to motivate people is to expect them to be motivated! The self-fulfiling prophecy works well everywhere: If you expect something of someone, your behavior reflects that expectation and the person would really behave that way you expected. So managers' behavior can affect the behavior and performance of their employees by using expectation .
Note2: motivation includes four categories: needs theories, task theories, reinforcement theory, and calculative theories
see also performance and effort