Importance, elicitation order, and expectancy × value

Requirement Elicitation Based on Value Chain Analysis

Requirement elicitation is an analysis, abstraction, synthesis, extracted process which obtains real and correct software requirements from users' demands, thoughts and expectations. The accuracy and integrity of software requirements is crucial to the success of the software. Although many software engineering techniques have been applied, incomplete, inaccurate or inconsistent requirements st...

Value Elicitation Is There Anything in There?

Eliciting people's values is a central pursuit in many areas of the social sciences, including survey research, attitude research, economics, and behavior decision theory. These disciplines differ considerably in the core assumptions they make about the nature of the values that are available for elicitation. These assumptions lead to very different methodological concerns and interpretations, ...

Expectancy Value Theory: Motivating Healthcare Workers

Vroom’s expectancy theory provides a process of cognitive variables that reflects individual differences in work motivation. In this model, employees are rational people whose beliefs, perceptions, and probability estimates influence their behaviors. From a management perspective, the expectancy theory has some important implications for motivating employees in healthcare setting. It identifies...

Expectancy-Value Theory of Achievement Motivation.

We discuss the expectancy-value theory of motivation, focusing on an expectancy-value model developed and researched by Eccles, Wigfield, and their colleagues. Definitions of crucial constructs in the model, including ability beliefs, expectancies for success, and the components of subjective task values, are provided. These definitions are compared to those of related constructs, including sel...

Theoretical perspectives: Eccles’ expectancy-value theory