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specific public service motivation (PSM) is shaped. In our paper, we analyze how different degrees of inclusion in the public …
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-efficacy, motivation, and test anxiety, obtained from an online survey before students’ exams. In the whole sample, we did not find an … treated students reported higher self-efficacy than the control students. The treatment affected students’ motivation before …
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In this paper we develop a theoretical model concerning self-control, motivation and commitment. The model, based on …, inferior and has to exercise self-control to resist temptation. A random, time-variant degree of motivation is introduced to …In diesem Papier entwickeln wir ein theoretisches Modell bezüglich Selbstkontrolle, Motivation und Selbstverpflichtung …
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social preferences. In a single-period setting, only moderately altruistic leaders use praise as a motivation tool, whereas …
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Market interactions are brought about by the interplay of entitlements and obligations. Entitlements are rights, as perceived by the individuals. They are subjectively perceived rights that go along with a motivational disposition to defend them. Obligations are the counterparts of entitlements....
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We study goal setting using a randomized field experiment involving 1092 first-year undergraduate students. Students have private mentor-student meetings during the year. We instructed a random subset of mentors to encourage students to set a course-specific grade goal during one of the...
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Empathy is considered a virtue, yet fails in many situations, leading to a basic question: when given a choice, do people avoid empathy? And if so, why? Whereas past work has focused on material and emotional costs of empathy, here we examined whether people experience empathy as cognitively...
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that choosing a manager who has a preference to spend resources for social causes can increase employee motivation. In turn …, ex-post losses in shareholder value may be offset by ex-ante gains in performance through higher employee motivation. …
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beneficiaries internal to an organization (i.e., one’s own colleague) can serve as an important source of motivation, even in jobs …
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