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Your organization wants to improve employee motivation. Employees already have strong P-to-O expectancies and the outcome valences are quite favourable for strong performance, but they seem to have a low E-to-P expectancy. Describe expectancy theory, and identify three distinct types of strategies that would potentially increase employee motivation by improving the E-to-P expectancy.

2. After Crispy Foods Ltd. had poured millions of dollars into the development of a new machine-made potato chip, the Board of Directors of the food-processing firm fired the CEO who had proposed and championed the product's development. The new CEO's first task is to find out why this monumental waste of money had occurred and how it can be prevented in the future. Describe escalation of commitment, and provide two strategies the new CEO at Crispy Foods Ltd. can implement to prevent or minimize this escalation of commitment in the future. Your answer must refer to this specific incident.

3.?Rather than relying on design engineers alone to design new products, the CEO of Quokka Resources wants to form teams of people from several departments to develop more creative products. These teams will consist of design engineers, manufacturing engineers, marketing staff and purchasing staff. Quokka's CEO believes that these teams will develop more creative products than design engineers did when working alone. Identify and discuss three potential constraints that might interfere with the CEO's expected benefits of team-based decision making and creativity.