How is employee’s gratitude pulled out?

“Gratitude Is With Me All the Time”: How Gratitude Relates to Wisdom

OBJECTIVES This study investigated the relationship of gratitude to wisdom. Both constructs are conceptually related to self-reflectivity, but they differ in their emphasis on extrapersonal resources. Previous wisdom research has focused mainly on intrapersonal capacities. METHOD In Study 1, 47 wisdom nominees and 47 control participants were interviewed about their most difficult and best li...

Is gratitude a moral affect?

Gratitude is conceptualized as a moral affect that is analogous to other moral emotions such as empathy and guilt. Gratitude has 3 functions that can be conceptualized as morally relevant: (a) a moral barometer function (i.e., it is a response to the perception that one has been the beneficiary of another person's moral actions); (b) a moral motive function (i.e., it motivates the grateful pers...

Development of a Quality Decision-Making Scenario to Measure How Employees Handle Out-of-Condition Grain

Quality management systems have been shown to improve inventory management, increase internal efficiencies, and enhance the ability of businesses to meet customer specifications, but little work has explored the role of employee decisions in the success of such systems. This work used the methodology of processtracing to examine the decision-making process of grain elevator employees (n=164) as...

How Employees Use Performance Measurement

Nowadays, the user group for business performance measurement has expanded from managers to employees. However, there has been hardly any research regarding how employees are actually using performance measurement. This paper explores the topic by seeking answers to three research questions. First, for what purpose do employees actually use performance measurement? Second, what kind of problems...

How is the Mother Tongue Acquired