BUSINESS PSYCHOLOGY REPORT

LEARNING SPACES

WINTER TERM
2011

TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. Introduction……………………………………………………………………….3
II. Learning……………………………………………………………………………..3 1. Learning process…………………………………………………………....4 2. Learning styles………………………………………………………………..4 3. Learning theories……………………………………………………………5 III. Motivation………………………………………………………………………….5 1. Work motivation…………………………………………………………….6 2. Theories of motivation………………………………………………7-8
IV. Learning Spaces/Environment……………………………………………...9 1. Definition…………………………………………………………………………9 2. Types of learning spaces…………………………………………………9 3. Characteristics of learning spaces……………………………………10
V. ADR …show more content…

It can be used by giving students a group work such as a group project or assignment. Furthermore, Staff can use this theory to help students learn but also to help themselves to simplify their ways of teaching. For example, two teachers can work together to present specific topic to students in the best possible way and decrease their workload allowing space for their other work or activities.

III) MOTIVATION

In today’s academic world, many universities are facing challenges on how to improve their operation’s efficiencies and effectiveness in meeting up with their student’s satisfaction of their work environment. These challenges have created the need for universities to use theories of motivation approaches to resolve operational issues similar to this report about learning space. Motivation theories in the research literature are amongst the most varied and well defined of any area of work and organizational psychology (Latham and Pinder, 2005) this part is about work motivation, how to understand it and acknowledge what motivates people.

1) Work motivation Work motivation is the psychological forces that determine the direction of a person’s behaviour in an organization, a person’s level of effort and a person’s level of persistence’’ (George and Jones, 1996)

2) Theories of motivation Needs theory was originally developed by Maslow which gives a concept