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I examine the history of employee engagement and how it has been characterised by thinkers in sociology, psychology …, management and economics. I suggest that, while employers may choose to invest in employee engagement, there are alternative … management strategies that may be profit-maximising. I identify four elements of employee engagement – job 'flow', autonomous …
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Many service organizations rely on information sharing systems to boost employee creativity to meet customer needs. We … sharing system recording employees' creative work affected the quality of creative work, job engagement, and financial … significantly improved the quality of creative work in stores that had accessed the system more frequently and in stores with fewer …
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employee motivation and retention are managed by the mobile app-based, multiple payment platformenabled, car-pooling Chinese … emerging research in learning the tools for employee retention of a company that has a high regional scale of operations across … this paper is to evaluate how levels of employee motivation, in a gig economy setting, largely affects employee effort and …
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paper draws key insights from the employee motivation theories by Herzberg and Taylor which underpins the findings and …-based companies how to better design motivational factors or incentives to boost their employee satisfaction, engagement and levels of …
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The study makes use of a case study approach and centers on Southwest Airlines, a business well known for its employee …-focused culture and high levels of employee engagement. Using both anecdotal and quantitative data, the study examines the effects of … Southwest's employee appreciation program on employee engagement and motivation. According to the findings, an employee …
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certain factors on employee motivation, based on the importance that different motivation factors have, depending on certain … motivation factors on employee motivation. However, the results of the analysis of the variance indicate that it is necessary to … needs of employees, in order for the employee motivation system to show the expected results. …
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We attempt to formulate and explain two types of self-fulfilling prophecy, called the Pygmalion effect (if a supervisor thinks her subordinates will succeed, they are more likely to succeed) and the Galatea effect (if a person thinks he will succeed, he is more likely to succeed). To this...
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are contractible, an attention race' arises, as each manager tries to sway the employee's effort his way. While this may …
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We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more … namely, a lot of attention which will induce the employee to stay at the firm and work hard. Our predictions are well in line …
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The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction is explored theoretically and empirically. To do this, we apply a utility function that rises with the absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. It is shown that when employees can influence their wages by exerting effort, myopic utility...
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