background workforce motivation and retention is important for the functionality and quality of service delivery in health systems of developing countries. despite huge primary healthcare (phc) infrastructure, pakistan’s health indicators are not impressive; mainly because of under-utilization of facilities and low patient satisfaction. one of the major underlying issues is staff absenteeism. t...

Motivation is a well established topic in psychology and other disciplines such as business management, education, and health care. Despite the di↵erences in defining motivation, see [4], motivation is widely seen as the“psychological processes that cause the arousal, direction, and persistence of behaviour” [6]. A motive can be described as the substance that can increase the will of a person ...

the purpose of present study was to investigate the relationship of cultural context, thinking styles and achievement motivation with academic achievement among behavioral sciences students from university of tehran. three hundred and three students (96 boys, 207 girls), selected through stratified sampling method, answered a questionnaire, which consisted individualism / collectivism & power d...

the aim of this study was to predict expert archers’ performance on the basis of psychological factors such as arousal, activation, anxiety, motivation and personality characteristics with an emphasis on extraversion / introversion dimension. in this predictive correlation study, 34 expert archers were randomly selected as the sample of the study out of the archers of national team (statistical...

objective: the purpose of this study was to identify factors influencing student’s achievement motivation. statistical population of this research consisted of agriculture ms.c students in tehran university (n=712). methods: a random sampling method was used to collect data from 175 students applying cochran's formula. the main tool to collect data was a researcher made questionnaire. content v...

Knowledge transfer was the most important factors of success for organizations in today's complex and changing environment as one of aspects of knowledge management. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation by transfer the employee’s knowledge in social security organizations in Kerman. The method research is descriptive and...