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    Inducing Intrinsic Motivation to Explore the Enterprise System: The Supremacy of Organizational Levers Weiling Ke‚ Chuan-Hoo Tan‚ Choon-Ling Sia‚ and Kwok-Kee Wei Weiling Ke is an associate professor of operations and information systems in the School of Business at Clarkson University. She holds a Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore. Her research areas are enterprise systems‚ open source software‚ and electronic commerce. Her research has been published in the Journal of Operations Management

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    An Empirical Investigation of Arbitrage Pricing Theory: A case Zimbabwe Petros Jecheche University of Zimbabwe ABSTRACT This study investigates the Arbitrage Pricing Theory for the case of Zimbabwe using time series data from 1980 to 2005 within a vector autoregressive (VAR) framework. The Granger causality tests are conducted to establish the existence of causality among the variables like inflation‚ exchange rate and Gross Domestic Product. The VAR estimates as shown by the impulse response

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    Aristotle‚ happiness may be described as the very thing that everyone in this world is pursuing for the whole life. Satisfaction of one’s necessities or desires‚ both mentally and physically healthy condition‚ superior social status and other kinds of good properties may consist of the meaning of this fantastic word. Meanwhile‚ happiness does also exert a subtle influence on one’s decision and choice. In other words‚ men generally do things out of their own interests to produce more happiness. Nevertheless

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    Maslow ’s Hierarchy of Needs Theory Pablo Valdez Liberty University Abstract Abraham Maslow introduced a very simple way of understanding the needs of a person. The Hierarchy of Needs sorts the needs of the lowest and most basic levels to the higher levels. Maslow then arises within their theory of personality‚ the concept of hierarchy of needs‚ which needs are structurally organized with varying degrees of power‚ according to a biological determination given by our genetic makeup as the agency

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    About Sharing Happiness We can only share happiness with others when we ourselves know how to be happy and are happy. If we are not happy (it means we don’t know how to be happy)‚ then how can we share happiness with others and ask others to be happy‚ when we don’t have happiness in ourselves? We can share our joy and happiness with all beings without any discrimination of human beings or non-human beings‚ good beings or bad beings‚ happy beings or unhappy beings‚ wise beings or ignorant beings

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    Motivation theory   "Crompton (1979) notes it is possible to describe the who‚ when‚ where‚ and how of tourism‚ together with the social and economic characteristics of tourist‚ but not to answer the question "why‚" the most interesting question of all tourist behaviour." (Fodness 1994‚ p. 556)  While motivation is only one of many variables in explaining tourist behaviour‚ it is nonetheless  a very critical one‚ as it constitutes the driving force behind all behaviour (Fodness 1994). Motivation

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    Factor Theory of Motivation" Done by Syed Imtiaz Hossain ID: 1210485630 Course: MGT-321 (Organizational Behavior) Section: 9 Introduction The classical theories of motivation can be easily criticized for their loopholes but in reality they were the foundation for all the modern theories of motivation. Most of the modern theories of motivation were in fact the combination of the classical theories. Herzberg’s two factor theory is considered a heavyweight among the classical theories. In 1959

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    Springer Science+Business Media New York 2012 Abstract Integrating self-determination theory (SDT) and leader-member exchange (LMX) theory‚ we explore the role of the leader in facilitating employee self-determination. We test a model of the linkages between employees’ leadermember exchanges‚ psychological need satisfaction (i.e.‚ satisfaction of autonomy‚ competence‚ and relatedness needs)‚ autonomous motivation‚ and attitudinal outcomes. We posit that high-quality leader-member exchanges facilitate

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    1 Theories of Motivation Motivation is regarded as one of the most important areas of study in the field of organizational behavior (Cadwallader‚ S. K. 2003). In a general way‚ the term motivation theory is concerned with the processes that describe how and why human behavior is directed and activated. How to improve and enhance the industry or company is based on how to motivate employees‚ which is an effective method to increase competitive businesses’ advantage and extend their value (Rahman

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    that conventions can be manipulated for specific effects. Both texts Pursuit of Happiness directed by Gabriele Muccino and Death of a salesman written by Arthur Miller effectively implement conventions in effort to gain a response from the audience. Muccino’s drama film Pursuit of happiness is an American biographical film based on the true lift story of Chris Gardner and his nearly one year struggle with homelessness. Gardner is under the constant strain of financial pressure‚ and his privation

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