Self-confidence is considered one of the most influential motivators and regulators of behavior in people's everyday lives (Bandura, 1986). A growing body of evidence suggests that one's perception of ability or self-confidence is the central mediating construct of achievement strivings (e.g., Bandura, 1977; Ericsson et al., 1993; Harter, 1978; Kuhl, 1992; Nicholls, 1984). Ericsson and his colleagues have taken the position that the major influence in the acquisition of expert performance is the confidence and motivation to persist in deliberate practice for a minimum of 10 years.
Self-confidence is not a motivational perspective by itself. It is a judgment about capabilities for accomplishment of some goal, and, therefore, must be considered within a broader conceptualization of motivation that provides the goal context. Kanfer (1990a) provides an example of one cognitively based framework of motivation for such a discussion. She suggests that motivation is composed of two components: goal choice and self-regulation. Self-regulation, in turn, consists of three related sets of activities: self-monitoring, self-evaluation, and self-reactions. Self-monitoring provides information about current performance, which is then evaluated by comparing that performance with one's goal. The comparison between performance and goal results in two distinct types of self-reactions: self-satisfaction or -dissatisfaction and self-confidence expectations. Satisfaction or dissatisfaction is an affective response to past actions; self-confidence expectations are judgments about one's future capabilities to attain one's goal. This framework allows a discussion of self-confidence as it relates to a number of motivational processes, including setting goals and causal attributions.
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Impacting his clientele base with increased profitability and to extend the duration of customer relationships.
Explanation:
Maalik is focused on improving customer relationship management, impacting the profitability of existing customers and extending the duration of customer relationships by offering a service package at a discounted rate and a promotion that allows customers to trade in their old computers for new ones at much lower prices than his competitors can offer.
Answer:
1) cash on hand (bank) - operating acitivites 2) cash on hand (bank) - finance activities
Explanation:
Dividends received increases the amount of cash flow available. Thus on the statement of cash flows it's recorded as an inflow of cashflow under operating acitivities.
Dividends paid are viewed as financing activity and since it's an outflow of cash (money leaving the entity) it is recorded as decrease in finance activities.
