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

The E-to-P expectancy may be improved generally by increasing the individual's abilities and self-perceptions of ability, and by providing favorable situational contingencies.There are three basic strategies for improving the individual's ability to perform the job.First, the organization should select people with the required skills and knowledge to perform the job.Second, the organization should provide sufficient training to enable the person to do the job proficiently.Third, for those who lack the skills or knowledge to perform the whole job, managers might temporarily reduce the job requirements.Specifically, aspects of the job that are beyond the individual's qualifications may be temporarily assigned to other people.
To improve the person's perceived ability to perform the job, managers could show employees how their skills can accomplish the task.They could provide evidence and examples that similar employees have been successful in this job.Managers should provide encouragement and support to employees who lack self-confidence.They should provide feedback to reinforce the belief that the employees can perform the job.
Finally, the E-to-P expectancy tends to increase as employees are placed in work environments with favorable situational contingencies.In other words, they should be given sufficient time, materials and other resources to accomplish the job and have obstacles removed where possible.