MOTIVATION OF PUBLIC OFFICIALS AS A MANAGERIAL PROBLEM

Managerial Motivation Dynamics and Incentives

Firms can increase profitability by appropriately motivating managers. We investigate drivers of managerial motivation, and propose how firms can use performance-pay to alter motivational patterns. We focus on the agent’s optimal effort decision in trading off compensation utility with effort cost in a static and dynamic setting. Surprisingly, we find that lower risk aversion or increased pay a...

discursive motivation/demotivation construction: a case of iranian efl majors

بررسی نقش گفتمان در شکل گیری یا کاهش انگیزش فراگیران زبان خارجی موضوع تحقیق نسبتاً جدیدی است. از این رو، تحقیقات کمی در این زمینه وجود دارد. به منظور پر کردن این خلاء ، مطالعه کنونی به بررسی فرآیند گفتمان مدار شکل گیری یا کاهش انگیزش دانشجویان ایرانی زبان انگلیسی پرداخت. نخست، این مطالعه به صورت آزمایشی با 7 نفر (? دانشجوی پسر و 5 دختر) از دانشجویان سال دوم دوره ی کارشناسی زبان و ادبیات انگلیسی ...

Structuring managerial problem situations

City and regional planning: a primer for public health officials.

Recognizing that planners' decisions affect the public's health, some public health officials are becoming more involved in city and regional planning. This article describes city and regional planning fundamentals to help public health practitioners better understand plan making and plan implementation, including the development project review process; provides examples of how three local publ...

learning style, self efficacy and intrinsic motivation as predictors of iranian ielts reading comprehension

this thesis attempts to measure learning styles, self efficacy and intrinsic motivation as predictors of iranian ielts reading comprehension. in order to address this issue, a quantitative study was conducted on some randomly selected intact students at ferdowsi university. these two groups were assigned as they were undergraduate (ba=91) and graduate (ma =74) students; they were all aged betwe...