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incentives - motivate a worker by adopting leadership styles that differ in their non-monetary consequences for the worker’s well …This paper develops a simple economic model to examine how leadership styles in organizations depend on the prevailing …-being. Some leadership styles produce non-monetary benefits for workers (such as those involving the provision of praise to high …
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Research rankings based on publications and citations today dominate governance of academia. Yet they have unintended side effects on individual scholars and academic institutions and can be counterproductive. They induce a substitution of the taste for science by a taste for publication. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316925
Motivation is an important tool which can have a significant impact to improve the performance of employees in any … current research is aimed at examining the role played by motivation in sustaining the commitment of sales professionals … included in the model to measure the motivation show a signifi cant and positive impact. Similarly the coefficient for …
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We conducted a randomized controlled trial involving nearly 700 customer-service representatives (CSRs) in a Canadian government service agency to study whether providing CSRs with performance feedback with or without peer comparison affected their subsequent organ donor registration rates....
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Organizational structures are an important determinant of individual incentives and thus individual motivation in … organizations. We study whether their effects on individual motivation go beyond incentives and how they relate to the perceived … organizational structure in a way that leaves the incentives of all individuals unaffected, but changes the perceived legitimacy of …
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Self-determination theory posits that individuals are motivated at work when their inherent psychological needs for … competence, autonomy, and relatedness are satisfied. Drawing on this theory, this paper presents a new conceptual model … explaining how work meaningfulness influences effort at work. In our model, motivation decreases the disutility of exerting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014637022
Research rankings based on publications and citations today dominate governance of academia. Yet they have unintended side effects on individual scholars and academic institutions and can be counterproductive. They induce a substitution of the "taste for science" by a "taste for publication". We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168384
, matters to labour economists. Building on self-determination theory, which specifies the roles of autonomy, competence, and … relatedness as preconditions for motivation, we are the first to explore the determinants of work meaningfulness. Specifically …
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, matters to labour economists. Building on self-determination theory, which specifies the roles of autonomy, competence, and … relatedness as preconditions for motivation, we are the first to explore the determinants of work meaningfulness. Specifically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207793
Self-determination theory posits that individuals are motivated at work when their inherent psychological needs for … competence, autonomy, and relatedness are satisfied. Drawing on this theory, this paper presents a new conceptual model … explaining how work meaningfulness influences effort at work. In our model, motivation decreases the disutility of exerting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015061937