MOTIVATION Concept of Motivation: Motivation is a psychological concept which acts as a force that propels a person to act or not to act in a certain way. Robert D. Irwin defines motivation as “Motivation means a process of stimulating people to action to accomplish a desired goal”. A manager needs to coordinate several factors of production and these factors can be classified into non human and human factors. The efficiency of non human factors such as material‚ machine‚ etc depends on the technology
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What is motivation? Motivation is generally defined as the force that compels us to action. It drives us to work hard and pushes us to succeed. Motivation influences our behavior and our ability to accomplish goals. There are many different forms of motivation. Each one influences behavior in its own unique way. No single type of motivation works for everyone. People’s personalities vary and so accordingly does the type of motivation‚ that is most effective at inspiring their conduct. Types
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Current Trends and their Potential Impact on the Future of the Travel and Tourism Industry Report Prepared by Hanna Wojciak Prepared for Melanie Chesney Introduction The purpose of this report is to provide information about political‚ economic‚ environmental‚ social‚ cultural and technological factors and current trends and their impact on the future of the Travel and Tourism industry‚ which will be submitted to the Minister heading the Education Department of the Scottish Executive.
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UNIVERSITY DEGREE MANAGEMENT STUDIES Using relevant theories and examples explain how motivation can affect employee’s commitment and performance at work? Motivation originates from the word ’move’ and refers to the internal drive necessary to steer people’s actions and behaviours towards goals. This ’force’ is the degree to which an individual wants and chooses to engage in certain specified behaviours (Mullins 2005). However‚ motivated behaviours are voluntary choices controlled by the individual
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employee motivation in Motonet-Espoo Carolina Mikander Carolina Mikander Degree Thesis International Business 2010 Carolina Mikander DEGREE THESIS Arcada Degree Programme: Identification number: Author: Title: International Business 3071 Carolina Mikander The impact of a reward sytem on employee motivation in Motonet-Espoo Sveinn Eldon Motonet Oy Supervisor (Arcada): Commissioned by: Abstract: The purpose of the thesis was to investigate and analyze how well the current reward
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Kazakpayev Maxat Motivation Motivation - is the process encouraging people to work. There are many different aspects of the theory of motivation‚ and they are: 1. Historically‚ the early views on motivation to work‚ such as the policy of "carrot and stick". The adherents of this view think that man is by nature lazy‚ sly‚ selfish‚ wants to give less and get more‚ hence there is a need to constantly force him to work and systematically encouraged to achieve high results. 2. Content theories
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Discrimination often reflects an abuse of power within an organisation‚ where members of one group of people yield greater power than others‚ generally women. It is linked with women’s disadvantaged status at work and‚ more generally‚ in society.(Frazier‚ P. A. and Cohen‚ B. B. (1992) ‘Research on the Gender bias against women: implications for counsellor training’. The Counselling Psychologist. 20: 141-158.) The matters of blatant employment dicrimination or sexual harrasment at work seems to be
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Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries 18 (2005) 225–237 www.elsevier.com/locate/jlp Current status and expected future trends in dust explosion research R.K. Eckhoff* Department of Physics and Technology‚ University of Bergen‚ Allegaten 55‚ N-5007 Bergen‚ Norway ¨ Øresund Safety Advisers AB‚ Box 82‚ SE-20120 Malino‚ Sweden Abstract In spite of extensive research and development for more than 100 years to prevent and mitigate dust explosions in the process industries‚ this hazard
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It used to be only select few Malaysian companies had the resources to venture abroad. Overseas ventures were a game only for the big players. Nowadays‚ going abroad is almost necessity for any Malaysian company looking for growth in profit. Malaysian companies are looking abroad to take advantage of the globalization following the rising labour costs and a limited domestic market Malaysia only has 22 million people compared to countries like India and China which each has more than 1 billion people
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MOTIVATION IN DEFENCE ORGANIZATION This paper presents the findings with regards to the motivation levels of Officers in the Defence Sector under several parameters. The Indian Army serves as the ultimate instrument for maintaining the unity and the integrity of the nation in the face of external threats and internal unrest and disturbances. Teamwork breeds comradeship which‚ in turn‚ leads to pride in belonging to a team and fosters esprit de corps. Motivation thrives on a continuing sense
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