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Good or bad news first? : the effect of feedback order on motivation and performance
Kinne, Lavinia - 2023
whether the ordering of feedback elements matters for motivation and performance. In random order, university students get one … positive and one negative feedback element on their performance in exam practice questions. Students who first receive positive … a drop in motivation after negative feedback when receiving it first, but not when receiving it second. Furthermore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014288920
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Identity-driven cooperation versus competition
Snower, Dennis J.; Bosworth, Steven - 2016
This paper seeks to extend the domain of identity economics by exploring motivational foundations of in-group cooperation and out-group competition. On this basis, we explore the reflexive interaction between individual economic decisions and social identities in response to technological change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452091
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Identity-driven cooperation versus competition
Snower, Dennis J.; Bosworth, Steven - 2016
This paper seeks to extend the domain of identity economics by exploring motivational foundations of in-group cooperation and out-group competition. On this basis, we explore the reflexive interaction between individual economic decisions and social identities in response to technological change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434452
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Good or bad news first? The effect of feedback order on motivation and performance
Kinne, Lavinia - 2023
whether the ordering of feedback elements matters for motivation and performance. In random order, university students get one … positive and one negative feedback element on their performance in exam practice questions. Students who first receive positive … a drop in motivation after negative feedback when receiving it first, but not when receiving it second. Furthermore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014293758
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Culture, feedback, and gender in education
Kinne, Lavinia - 2023
which positive and negative performance feedback is provided, matters for study motivation and to some extent also exam … performance. Finally, chapter 5 presents new insights to gender gaps in adult cognitive skills, showing that they are highly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014329721
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Implementing productivity gainsharing to influence the performance of value drivers employed by EVA / Jakobus Eduard Wessels Fivaz
Fivaz, Jakobus Eduard Wessels - 2008
the primary drive for motivation to certain employees within the company. Further more based on the results of the … positive influence on the value drivers employed by the EVA methodology. EVA is a value based performance measure, an … investment decision tool and also a performance measure indicating the absolute amount of shareholder value created. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009455956
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Factors affecting performance of professional nurses in Namibia
Awases, Magdalene Hilda - 2006
that improving the performance of health personnel should be at the core of any sustainable solution to health system … performance. However, it is widely acknowledged that health systems are not producing the desired output of health interventions … affect performance of nurses in Namibia with the aim of providing a management framework for improving the performance of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457760
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Considerations on the intellectual potential creativity
Certan, Simion; Certan, Ion - 2013
The functionality of the new economic system of Republic of Moldavia, based on market relations and opened to world, frequently marked by dynamism, often by uncertainty and risk, sometimes even hostility, depends, crucially, on the innovation activity. Innovation activity, formation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288265
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Does Losing Lead to Winning? An Empirical Analysis for Four Different Sports
Teeselink, Bouke Klein; van den Assem, Martijn J.; van … - 2020
Berger and Pope (2011) show that being slightly behind increases the likelihood of winning in professional and collegiate basketball. We extend their analysis to large samples of Australian football, American football and rugby matches, but find little to no evidence of such an effect for these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427149
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Run for fun: Intrinsic motivation and physical performance
Filippin, Antonio; van Ours, Jan C. - 2012
teams and run for an hour. This allows us not only to study the individual relationship between age and performance but also … performance goes down with age, although the speed-age gradient is rather flat. Group performance goes down with age as well, but … interestingly a counterbalancing force emerges, namely team dynamics that are driven by performance of runners who enter and leave. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282363