What motivates money donation? A study on external motivators

What Motivates a Musical Query?

What Motivates Employees?

The purpose of this paper is to deepen the discussion about what motivates employees. This paper briefly describes the seven stages of psychological development and the corresponding levels of motivation. These are linked to Harvard Professor Robert Kegan’s work on the three types of mind (socialized mind, self‐authoring mind, and self‐transforming mind). Each of the three types of mind has dif...

What Motivates Youth Civic Involvement?

The topic of youth civic engagement is increasingly popular in social science research; however, the question of why some youth are civically involved while others are not is not well understood. This article addresses the following questions: What motivations and barriers do youth report for civic involvement? How do motivations and barriers differ across school contexts? A qualitative study u...

What Motivates Us for Work? Intricate Web of Factors beyond Money and Prestige

Efficiency at doing a certain task, at the workplace or otherwise, is strongly influenced by how motivated individuals are. Exploring new ways to motivate employees is often at the top of a company's agenda. Traditionally identified motivators in Western economies primarily include salary and prestige, often complemented by meaning, creation, challenge, ownership, identity, etc. We report the r...

Love, money, or flexibility: what motivates people to work in consumer-directed home care?

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of wages and benefits (relative to other jobs available to workers), controlling for personal characteristics, on the recruitment and retention of providers working in a consumer-directed home care program. DESIGN AND METHODS I used the results of focus groups to design a survey that was administered to 2,260 workers stratified b...