INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL TOPIC FORUM THE FUTURE OF WORK MOTIVATION THEORY RICHARD M. STEERS RICHARD T. MOWDAY University of Oregon DEBRA L. SHAPIRO University of Maryland The topic of employee motivation plays a cen- tral role in the field of management—both prac- tically and theoretically. Managers see motiva- tion as an integral part of the performance equation at all levels, while organizational re- searchers see it as a fundamental building block in the development of useful theories of effective managementpractice. Indeed, the topic of motivation permeates many of the sub- fields that compose the study of management, including leadership, teams, performance man- agement, managerial ethics, decision making, and organizational change. It is not surprising, therefore, that this topic has received so much attention over the past several decades in both research journals and management periodicals. Whereas several recent articles have exam- ined how far we have come in researching work motivation, this special forum focuses on where we are going. 1 That is, we ask the questions: What is the future of work motivation theories? What are the critical questions that must be addressed if progress in the field is to be made? What is the future research agenda? How can we extend or modify current models of work motivation so they continue to be relevant in the future? And where are entirely new models of motivation needed to further our understanding of employee behavior and job performance in contemporary organizations? To understand where the field is going, how- ever, we must first understand where it has been. This introduction represents an overview of the field of work motivation from a theoretical standpoint and lays the foundation for the...
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RECALL EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH: A REVIEW AND SUMMARY OF THE LITERATURE ON CONSUMER MOTIVATION AND BEHAVIOR Prepared for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission CPSC Order No. CPSC-F-02-1391 Contract No. GS23F9780H Prepared by: July 2003 XL ASSOCIATES EXCELLENCE IN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES ii Table of Contents I. Introduction and Project Objectives ............................................................................... 1 II. Overview of the Project Work Plan ................................................................................ 2 III. Organizing Framework .................................................................................................... 3 IV. Quantitative Studies of Recall Effectiveness................................................................... 3 V. Steps in the Recall Compliance Process.......................................................................... 6
Motivation for Change and Alcoholism Treatment Carlo C. DiClemente, Ph.D., Lori E. Bellino, M.Ed., and Tara M. Neavins, M.S. Motivation plays an important role in alcoholism treatment by influencing patients to seek, complete, and comply with treatment as well as make successful long-term changes in their drinking. Both alcohol-abusing and alcohol-dependent people can be classified into different “stages of change” in terms of their readiness to alter their drinking behavior. Consequently, researchers have had to consider more seriously the role
Invisible Motivation of Online Adult Learners During Contract Learning Seung Youn (Yonnie) Chyung, Boise State University Abstract In a face-to-face classroom, the instructor can easily diagnose students’ motivational status by observing their facial expressions and postures, but such cues are absent in an online classroom. Therefore, online instructors often estimate students’ motivational level based on their online behavior such as the number of messages they post, and look for effective strategies to help them actively participate in online dialogues. One
Proceedings of the 36th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - 2003 knowledge workers to transform the above inputs into organizational performance. Not surprisingly, despite the availability of the best technology or access to the richest warehouses of relevant information, knowledge workers’ motivation and commitment often determine the success or failure of knowledge management systems [16,18]. Similarly, knowledge workers’ motivation and commitment play a critical role in enabling sharing of tacit and explicit knowledge [39,42]. Given their importance, it differences.
Ars Disputandi Volume 6 (2006) : 1566–5399 Tim Mawson Divine Motivation Theory By Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004; 428 pp.; hb. £ 40.00, pb. £ 18.99; 0–521–82880–5/0–521–53576–X [1] In Divine Motivation Theory, Linda Zagzebski articulates and defends a motivation-based virtue ethic, one which makes emotion primary and then goes on to make the virtues and emotions of God, specifically the Trinitarian God of Christianity, central. Thus the resultant theory ‘might be called a
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