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The motivation of temporary agency workers : an empirical analysis
Grund, Christian; Minten, Axel; Toporova, Nevena - 2017
We are investigating the relationship between individual and job-related characteristics and the motivation of …,000 temporary agency workers, a subjective motivation appraisal is provided by the respective direct manager within the hiring … motivation of temporary agency workers. Women in temporary agency work demonstrate a higher degree of motivation than men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776038
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Arbeitgeberwahl und Mitarbeitermotivation in der Logistikbranche
Meyer, Anja; Witte, Christian; Klumpp, Matthias - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009718629
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Motivating employees through career paths
Bar-Isaac, Heski; Levy, Raphaël - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012177985
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"Your driver is Didi and minutes away from your pick-up point" : understanding employee motivation in the gig economy of China
Mukhopadhyay, Boidurjo; Chatwin, Chris - 2021
employee motivation and retention are managed by the mobile app-based, multiple payment platformenabled, car-pooling Chinese … this paper is to evaluate how levels of employee motivation, in a gig economy setting, largely affects employee effort and …, while also adding contextual knowledge on how a relatively new transport company retain employees in a leading BRICS economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494438
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Disentangling the role of contract types and sector disparities for public service motivation
Grund, Christian; Thommes, Kirsten - 2015
The intention of "doing good for society" is regarded to be a crucial motivator for employees in the public sector in … specific public service motivation (PSM) is shaped. In our paper, we analyze how different degrees of inclusion in the public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346559
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Goal setting and raising the bar : a field experiment
Lent, Max van; Souverijn, Michiel - 2016
We study goal setting using a randomized field experiment involving 1092 first-year undergraduate students. Students have private mentor-student meetings during the year. We instructed a random subset of mentors to encourage students to set a course-specific grade goal during one of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011583305
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Entitlements and obligations
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2016
Market interactions are brought about by the interplay of entitlements and obligations. Entitlements are rights, as perceived by the individuals. They are subjectively perceived rights that go along with a motivational disposition to defend them. Obligations are the counterparts of entitlements....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568557
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Empathy is a choice : people are empathy misers because they are cognitive misers
Cameron, C. Daryl; Hutcherson, Cendri A.; Ferguson, … - 2016
Empathy is considered a virtue, yet fails in many situations, leading to a basic question: when given a choice, do people avoid empathy? And if so, why? Whereas past work has focused on material and emotional costs of empathy, here we examined whether people experience empathy as cognitively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646334
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The motivational cost of inequality : pay gaps reduce the willingness to pursue rewards
Gesiarz, Filip; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Sharot, Tali - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180902
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What makes work meaningful and why economists should care about it
Nikolova, Milena; Cnossen, Femke - 2020
relatedness as preconditions for motivation, we are the first to explore the determinants of work meaningfulness. Specifically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012199176