How did Christine Taylor succeed in evolving the local dog-washing service she developed as a teenager into an international franchise business? Christine Taylor grew up as a child in a physical environment that allowed her to succeed. She worked in a bait and tackle business that was owned by her parents in which the only thing acceptable was hard work. This environment allowed her to study hard in school and create a drive within her to succeed. Through her studies and research‚ you decided
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Magnetohydrodynamic drive In concept‚ MHD is attractive because it offers a propulsion system that requires no moving parts. It works on a principle similar to that of an electric motor or generator; that is‚ passing an electrical current through a magnetic field creates a force. In an MHD propulsion system‚ a magnetic field is created within the hull‚ and sea water is used to conduct the electric current‚ as shown in the illustrations accompanying this story. The underlying principle is known
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Employee Motivation by Justine Di Cesare and Golnaz Sadri Introduction Motivation is fundamental to human behaviour. Bartol and Martin (1998) define motivation as the force that energises behaviour‚ gives direction to behaviour‚ and underlies the tendency to persist. Similarly‚ Greenberg and Baron (1997) define motivation as “the set of processes that arouse‚ direct‚ and maintain human behaviour toward attaining some goal”. There are three key parts to this definition: arousal‚ drive‚ and mobilisation
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Learning to Drive The sun was just rising as I followed my father outside. I had no idea what was so important that I needed to be awake at the crack of dawn‚ but he sure was excited about it. When I looked down the driveway I couldn’t believe my eyes. There sat a brand new Audi A6. I sprinted over to it and ran my hands over the glassy smooth hood. “Jordan‚ you earned this car‚” my father said. “You’ve been busting your ass off in school and around the house‚ and your mother and I want
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How to Succeed in English Class “Be concrete; get to the point; express your opinions colorfully” (1). In English‚ one has no limit to what they want to read or write about. But with all the so called laws and rules that English has‚ it can become a very difficult subject. To firmly prosper in English Literature‚ a person is expected to be prepared for the class by reading ‚ listening‚ writing‚ and thinking in a more advanced and intelligent way. For starters‚ in English Literature the basic
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Motivation may be defined as psychological forces that determine the direction of a person’s behavior in an organization. Motivation is central to management because it explains why people behave the way they do. A persons’ behavior tells how motivated they are to do their job at a higher performance level. There is intrinsically and extrinsic sources for motivation (Gareth‚ 2009) There are also two motivational theories which explains how an employee can be motivated. Intrinsic behavior is
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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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1954; Robbins‚ 2004). Motivation can be either intrinsic or extrinsic. Interesting and joyful tasks can evoke intrinsic motivation‚ which exists within an individual‚ while extrinsic motivation is influenced by external elements‚ such as status‚ threats and poverty (Be´nabou & Tirole‚ 2001). In terms of occupation‚ researchers maintain that an appropriate work design leads to a high level of job satisfaction‚ and a high level of job satisfaction is linked to high motivation (Clark et al.‚ 1998)‚
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A USB flash drive is a data storage device that includes flash memory with an integratedUniversal Serial Bus (USB) interface. USB flash drives are typically removable and rewritable‚ and physically much smaller than a floppy disk. Most weigh less than 30 g.[1] As of September 2011 drives of 256 gigabytes (GB) are available‚[2] Storage capacities as large as 2 terabytesare planned‚ with steady improvements in size and price per capacity expected.[3] Some allow up to 100‚000 write/erase cycles‚ depending
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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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