Motivation for Changing Jobs, Personal Background Characteristics and Perceived Opportunity

Motivation Mediators, Personal Characteristics, and New Venture Performance 1 Motivation Mediators of Entrepreneurs’ Personal Characteristics and New Venture Performance

This six-year study of new venture growth continues renewed research about the effects of entrepreneurs’ personal characteristics. I applied goal theory and social-cognitive theory to propose that entrepreneurs’ personal traits and general competencies cause new venture growth indirectly through situationally specific motivation mediators. Data about traits (passion and tenacity), competencies ...

The Relationship of Students’ Study strategies with their Personal Characteristics and Academic Background

Introduction. Learning and study strategies improve academic success through facilitating learning. Identifying the students’ learning and study strategies is essential for educational interventions. This research was conducted to determine students’ learning and study strategies and their relationship with their personal charactristics and academic background in Mashad University of Medical Sc...

Non-Clairvoyant Multiprocessor Scheduling of Jobs with Changing Execution Characteristics

A multiprocessor system is unlikely to have access to information about the execution characteristics of the jobs it is to schedule. In this work, we are interested in scheduling algorithms for batch jobs that require no such knowledge (such algorithms are called non-clairvoyant). Preemptive scheduling (i.e., redistribution of processors) is important to reduce mean response time in multiproces...

Examining the Psychometric Characteristics of Tools for Measuring Intrinsic Motivation Inventory and Perceived Motivational Climate Scale among Medical Students

Introduction: Review of the literature indicates that few researchers have examined the issue of motivation in medical education context. Hence construction of appropriate measurement tools can be a step toward encouraging researchers to address this particular issue. This study examined psychometric characteristics of tools for measuring Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (IMI) and Perceived Motiv...

Motivation and Background