The pay gap affects women from all backgrounds‚ at all ages‚ and of all levels of education. In the U.S.‚ the gap stands at 64%‚ which means that women earn about two-thirds of what men make for similar work. That’s actually worse than last year‚ when gap was 66%. “The U.S. now ranks 74th in wage equality among 145 countries.” Well according to World Economic Forum‚ in the year 2133 women’s earning will finally match their male coworkers. The World Economic Forum believes it will take another 118
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Question: Explain the merits of the path-goal model of motivation by contrasting it with other theories of motivation. The path-goal model of motivation refers to the works of Robert J House in 1971 and later revised in 1996. House theorized that leaders are directly responsible for motivating their subordinates‚ and ideally could motivate them towards achieving personal goals and ultimately the goals of the organisation. Motivation refers to the “cognitive decision-making process through which
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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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Theories about Interpersonal Dynamics A good theory is simple and testable‚ and it is not isolated from our daily life. Based on the theories I have learned from the previous weeks‚ I found out that theories are applying in our daily life and related to the relationship with people‚ I would like to discuss the theories about interpersonal dynamics which is consisted of two theories: interactional theory and dialectical theory. Interactional theory is defined as a communication system in which
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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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result that is beneficial to all parts. They are born‚ they live and they sometimes die. (Clegg‚ Kornberger & Pitsis‚ 2008) They are responsive to their environments and sometimes serve as both catalysts for change and recipients of change that come from other sources. My current employer‚ the United States Army‚ would be classified in the machine category. Although there are not many organizations that fit in this category anymore‚ the Army‚ rooted deeply in history and tradition‚ has remained
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this it was necessary that an independent election commission with its vast paraphernalia should be set-up in country such a commission could ensure fair and free elections of the representatives of the pie at all levels. Articles 324‚ Dr. Ambedkar contended‚ "proposed centralise the election machinery in hands of a single commission‚ be assisted by regional commissioners working under the supervision direction control of the election commission and not and under e control of the state government
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The United States Should Switch to the Metric System One crucial‚ yet widely unnoticed issue plagues the United States of America today: the country simply faces a stubborn unwillingness to convert to the metric system. America spends millions of dollars on keeping the U.S. customary system in place. The refusal to convert hinders the country’s progress in the global economy. A conversion failure even sent a poor satellite hurtling towards destruction on the surface of Mars (Wheeler). The United
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Salary caps are used in all pro sports and can impact any team. Caps are imposed limits on the money a team can spend on their players salaries. Salaries in pro sports are becoming out of control and reaching 100 million dollars. Teams are becoming unbalanced and are losing profits. Salary caps should be used in pro sports. Did you know that Michael Vick now makes nearly 100 million dollars a year? He is even making this much after missing over two years of football and being thrown in
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Evaluate to what extent expectancy theory and equity theory can explain motivation at work. Motivation can be defined as a set of reasons which regulates ones behaviour. As observed the success of any organization depends largely on employee motivation. Motivated workforce leads to reduced absenteeism‚ staff turnover‚ greater efficiency leading to higher productivity. Various motivation theories by social scientists can be classified into process and content theories. Content theories concentrate
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