Critique of two newspaper articles on motivation Expectancy theory is one of the most widely used theories of motivation. It is first proposed by Victor Vroom Yale School of Management in 1964. This theory is well supported by much evidence and believes that the degree to which people would behave in a certain way depends on the strength of the expectation that the act will followed by a given outcome and on the attractiveness of that outcome to the individual. (Robbins et al. 2008). Two research-based articles that used expectancy theory to examine factors affecting the target object in different circumstances are compared in this critical article. These two articles are both academic and research-based in US universities and also have similar objectives towards different objects. The purpose of Chen Y et al's (2006) article is to examine the key factors that motivate business faculty members to increase research productivity by applying expectancy theory. To achieve this goal, the authors studied 10 business schools in the United States and tested several proposals. The main purpose of Geiger M et al's (1998) article is to use expectancy theory to assess the motivation of accounting students in non-US cultures. This article also tests whether expectancy theory is effective in a multinational context. This is because two studies with similar objectives had been conducted in the United States prior to this article. Both articles clearly expressed their content through the article titles. Furthermore, this article tested whether Hofstede's five cultural indices were related to expectancy theory or not. Thus, Geiger et al's (1998) article clearly has a broader topic horizon. And by scrolling through the titles, the reader could easily grasp the main purposes within these... middle of the paper... the title is that the dimensions of Hofesded culture have been tested to be considerably correlated with the components of the theory of 'expectation that they have been examined. Student motivation has been shown to be influenced by culture. This finding provided a way to motivate students from different cultures to perform better using various motivators. Reference Chen Y, Gupta A, Hoshower L. (2006) Factors that motivate business faculty to conduct research: an expectancy theory analysis. Training journal for businesses. 81, 4, pp. 179-189Geiger M, Cooper E, Hussain I, O'Connell B, et al. (1998) Cross-cultural comparisons: Using expectancy theory to assess student motivation: An international replication. Accounting training. 13, 1, pp 139-157Geiger, M.A. and E.A. Cooper. 1996. Using expectancy theory to assess student motivation. Accounting training problems (spring): 113-129