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Job motivation and satisfaction: Unpacking the key factors for charity shop managers

open access: yesJournal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2006
This paper explores the role of job characteristics and communication in relation to job motivation and satisfaction amongst UK charity shop managers.
Elizabeth Parsons, Adelina Broadbridge
exaly   +2 more sources

Verbal rewards and public managers’ autonomous motivation

open access: yesFinancial Accountability and Management, 2023
The aim of this paper is to examine how verbal rewards (praise) from superior public managers influence subordinate public managers' work motivation coming from experiencing work tasks as important, exciting, interesting, and fun, so-called autonomous ...
Sven Siverbo
exaly   +2 more sources

Management Motivation and Earnings Management Methods

2013 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, 2013
In this paper, we study the effectiveness of the management motivations on earnings management methods based on thousands of samples between 2006 and 2011. The empirical results indicate that Real Earnings Management is used to manipulate the earnings in order to turn a profit, avoid loss, refinance, and change executives.
Zhonghai Yang, Sun Ying, Qianqian Zhang
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Motivation to Manage

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 1997
This study assessed Chinese women's motivation to manage and its relationship to managerial success in Chinese state-owned enterprises. It was found that overall managerial motivation of Chinese women in this study was as high as that of Chinese men. In addition, overall managerial motivation was positively related to the hierarchical job level. Of the
Chao C. Chen, K. C. Yu, J. B. Miner
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Understanding Public and Nonprofit Managers' Motivation Through the Lens of Self-Determination Theory

open access: yesPublic Management Review, 2013
Contemporary public and nonprofit management research has disproportionally emphasized the importance of intrinsic motivation (especially service motivation) but has given comparatively little attention to non-intrinsic motivation.
Chung-An Chen, Barry Bozeman
exaly   +2 more sources

Managing Machine’s Motivations

2014
This paper presents concepts for the development and management of motivations in learning agents, which are critical for motivated learning. We suggest that an agent must be equipped with a mechanism referred to as a nonspecific formative process to trigger higher level motivations.
Janusz A. Starzyk   +2 more
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Management and Motivation

California Management Review, 1970
Over-management of functionally oriented organizations often makes the professional employee with specialized technical knowledge less productive than he should be. Solution: make project organization of key importance and recognize interdisciplinary ties that govern a professional's productive working relationships.
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Motivation and diabetes self-management

Chronic Illness, 2010
Objective: To examine the relationship between autonomous motivation and diabetes self-care activities among individuals with diabetes. Methods: Seventy-seven individuals recruited from outpatient clinic registries (64% female, 77% Caucasian, mean age 63 years) completed measures of diabetes-related self-care (Summary of Diabetes Self-
Cheryl, Shigaki   +6 more
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The Manager as Motivator

2006
A manager has more opportunity to directly motivate employees than does any other organizational influence. And in today's complex and fluid work environments, where retention of top-performing employees is paramount, managers are under considerable pressure to motivate individuals to achieve both personal and organizational goals. Integrating insights
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