Abstract The aim of this study was to propose a reliable measurement model for the concept job satisfaction in Italy and test its invariance across gender. We used 2003 2009 Italian National Statistical Office (ISTAT) Family Social Subjects (FSS) data, containing information on 8 dimensions satisfaction. best-fitting four-factor one, including intrinsic, rewards, timing socio-contextual Multi-g...

nowadays both part-time as well as regular employees are working in many organizations of bangladesh. though many studies have been conducted to know the motivation status of regular employees but no study is found that addressed motivations status of both regular and part-time employees of bangladesh. thus, this study is conducted on 300 regular and part-time employees of bangladesh to know th...

The link between money and motivation has been a debated topic for decades, especially in work organizations. However, field studies investigating the amount of pay in relation to employee motivation is lacking and there have been calls for empirical studies addressing compensation systems and motivation in the work domain. The purpose of this study was to examine outcomes associated with the a...

People primarily pursue long-term goals, such as exercising, to receive delayed rewards (e.g., improved health). However, we find that the presence of immediate rewards is a stronger predictor of persistence in goal-related activities than the presence of delayed rewards. Specifically, immediate rewards (e.g., enjoyment) predicted current persistence at New Year's resolutions whereas delayed re...

Pursuing personal goals for delayed rewards (e.g., exercising to improve health) often provides consumers with immediate rewards (e.g., a fun workout) in addition to the delayed rewards they receive. With regard to health and academic goals, we find that attending to the immediate rewards of health and academic activities increases persistence in these activities to a greater extent than attend...

In the absence of external rewards, agents can still learn useful behaviors by identifying and mastering a set diverse skills within their environment. Existing skill learning methods use mutual information objectives to incentivize each be distinguishable from rest. However, if care is not taken constrain ways in which are diverse, trivially sets arise. To ensure diversity, we propose novel ob...

effective knowledge sharing as one of the basic aspects of knowledge management can be considered as one of the most important successes in changing and complicated contexts of sport organizations. the aim of this study was to study the effects of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations on knowledge sharing in employees of physical education organizations of isfahan. the research method used descri...

Research on job satisfaction and gender has yielded mixed results, underscoring the need to understand how men women may experience differently. This study builds extant literature by examining extrinsic rewards, intrinsic work relations, work-life balance, design contribute among women. Moreover, examines these relationships in context of COVID-19 pandemic. Using measurement items from Interna...

We draw on self-determination theory and research religious orientations to investigate motivations associated with collective narcissism—a belief in in-group greatness that is underappreciated by others—versus secure identity, an unpretentious positive regard for the in-group. Four surveys examined these associations focusing different social identities: personally important groups (Study 1, N...