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Mapping site-based construction workers’ motivation: Expectancy theory approach

open access: yesConstruction Economics and Building, 2014
The aim of this study is to apply a recently proposed model of motivation based on expectancy theory to site-based workers in the construction context and confirm the validity of this model for the construction industry. The study drew upon data from 194
Parviz Ghoddousi   +3 more
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Expected Uncertain Utility Theory [PDF]

open access: yesEconometrica, 2014
The new Expected Uncertain Utility (EUU) theory is introduced and analyzed. According to this theory each decision maker has a prior \(\mu\) on a \(\sigma\)-algebra \(\mathcal{E}\) and an interval utility \(u=u(x,y)\). Each act \(f\) can be ideal or non-ideal. Ideal act is \(\mathcal{E}\)-measurable.
Gul, Faruk, Pesendorfer, Wolfgang
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The Role of Incentives Structure on Employee Performance in the Sierra Leone Banking Sector [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
A study explores how incentive structures with monetary and non-monetary rewards influence Sierra Leone's banking sector employee performance and the effect of management and employee commitment as moderating or mediating factors.
Mohamed Sesay
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Boundedly Rational Expected Utility Theory [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
We build a satisficing model of choice under risk which embeds Expected Utility Theory (EUT) into a boundedly rational deliberation process. The decision maker accumulates evidence for and against alternative options by repeatedly sampling from her underlying set of EU preferences until the evidence favouring one option satisfies her desired level of ...
Navarro-Martinez, Daniel   +4 more
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Vroom's Theories in School Leadership [PDF]

open access: yesSocial Sciences and Education Research Review
This article explores school leadership through the lens of Victor Vroom's expectancy theory, contextualized within the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR).
Mmalefikane Sylvia SEPENG
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Probing the Underlying Structure of Modern Expectancy-Value Theory in Multicultural Education: A Bayesian Exploratory Factor Analysis

open access: yesInternational Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Expectancy-Value (EV) theory has been widely used in a plethora of domains except for multicultural education, a distinct and critical field in many countries due to increasing student diversity.
Yan Yang, Diana Mindrila
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Computational-Model-Based Analysis of Context Effects on Harmonic Expectancy. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2016
Expectancy for an upcoming musical chord, harmonic expectancy, is supposedly based on automatic activation of tonal knowledge. Since previous studies implicitly relied on interpretations based on Western music theory, the underlying computational ...
Satoshi Morimoto   +2 more
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Research on the Improvement of Digital Literacy for Moderately Scaled Tea Farmers under the Background of Digital Intelligence Empowerment

open access: yesAgriculture, 2023
In the context of digital intelligence empowerment, the digital literacy level of tea farmers has a significant impact on the intelligent development and transformation of the tea industry.
Dongkai Lin   +5 more
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Evaluating motivation of construction workers: a comparison of fuzzy rule-based model with the traditional expectancy theory

open access: yesJournal of Civil Engineering and Management, 2016
Measuring workers’ performance and the level of motivation is of paramount importance as the productivity of workers at a workplace primarily depends upon their level of motivation.
Muluken Yeheyis   +4 more
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Online Learning Apps Adoption in the Saudi Context: A Perspective on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology

open access: yesScientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences, 2022
The aim of this study is to determine the behavioural intentions and actual usage of online learning apps through the lens of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology, which is a synthesis of numerous theories and models and is most ...
Ahmad Almufarreh
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