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Journal articles on the topic "Motivating potential"
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Zakharchyn, H., and N. Lyubomudrova. "Motivating personnel creative potential." Economics, Entrepreneuship, Management 2, no. 2 (2015): 17–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.23939/eem2015.02.017.
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Khojasteh, Mak. "Motivating the Private vs. Public Sector Managers." Public Personnel Management 22, no. 3 (September 1993): 391–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009102609302200304.
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This study investigates the differences in the motivation of private versus public sector managers. Five categories of intrinsic and seven categories of extrinsic rewards based on the Herzberg motivation-hygiene theory were included and managers perceptions of the importance and te relative dissatisfaction were obtained. The results of the study indicate that pay has a significantly greater motivating potential (MP) for private than public sector managers. Accourding to the study, managers in the private sector are also substantially more security oriented than their counterparts employed by the public sector. The intrinsic reward factor of recognition had higher motivating potential for public than private sector managers. The remainder of the reward factors and their motivating potentials are discussed.
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Koshkalda, Iryna, Oleksandr Kniaz, Alona Ryasnyanska, and Viktoriya Velieva. "Motivation Mechanism for Stimulating the Labor Potential." Research in World Economy 11, no. 4 (August 15, 2020): 53. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/rwe.v11n4p53.
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The issue of motivating the labor personnel to work effectively has been studied. The views of the world scientific community on employee motivation have been analyzed. Motivation has been proved as a determining factor in ensuring the efficient and coordinated work of employees. The hypothesis has been put forward concerning the influence of such aspects of the labor activity as advanced training, a level of responsibility, work experience, promptness, quality of work, and labor intensity on the labor potential motivation. The degree of influence of these aspects of work is determined based on the method of pairwise comparisons. The reliability of the calculations was proved by determining the consistency of experts’ opinions based on Spearman's rank correlation methodology.
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Catanzaro, Diane. "Course Enrichment and the Job Characteristics Model." Teaching of Psychology 24, no. 2 (April 1997): 85–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15328023top2402_1.
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This article describes how the job characteristics model, used by industrial-organizational psychologists to enhance the motivating potential of jobs in industry, can be applied to enhance the motivating potential of psychology courses. The job characteristics model describes the relation among the core job characteristics of skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, feedback, and employee intrinsic job motivation. Empirical support for the job characteristics model has been established in organizational research. Application of this model to course design provides a framework for enriching course design to increase student motivation. This conceptual framework can be used to strengthen teaching methods, evaluation methods, policies, and other aspects of how a course is structured.
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Burmeister, Anne, Andreas Hirschi, and Hannes Zacher. "Explaining Age Differences in the Motivating Potential of Intergenerational Contact at Work." Work, Aging and Retirement 7, no. 3 (April 2, 2021): 197–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/workar/waab002.
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Abstract Understanding the effects of intergenerational contact at work is important given aging and increasingly age-diverse workforces. The aim of this research was to better understand who derives motivational benefits from intergenerational contact, and the processes by which this occurs. To do so, we adopted a motivational lens grounded in need-based theories of work motivation and lifespan development theory. We argue that the motivating effect of intergenerational contact on work engagement via sense of belonging is more pronounced for older compared with younger employees due to changes in goal priorities across the lifespan. Specifically, we posit the generativity motive and perceived remaining time at work as lifespan-related mechanisms that explain the moderating effects of age on the links between intergenerational contact and work engagement. In Study 1, a laboratory experiment with 45 younger and 45 older participants in Switzerland, we found support for a causal effect of intergenerational contact on sense of belonging. In Study 2, a three-wave field study with 560 employees in Germany, we found that sense of belonging mediated the relation between intergenerational contact and work engagement. Furthermore, perceived remaining time at work explained the moderating effect of age on the link between sense of belonging and work engagement. By highlighting age differences in the motivating potential of intergenerational contact, we advance research on intergroup contact, employee motivation, and workforce aging.
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Cohen, Jason F., and James Matheri Kangethe. "The Relationship between User Satisfaction, System Attributes and the Motivating Potential of System Use." Journal of Organizational and End User Computing 27, no. 3 (July 2015): 55–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/joeuc.2015070103.
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User satisfaction (US) is an important information systems success measure. This paper contributes to our understanding of US in workplace settings by conceptualizing US as resulting from user evaluations of both the attribute level performance of the system and its impacts on the motivating potential of their work. Data was collected from a sample of 154 nurses in a regional public hospital in South Africa who are users of an integrated hospital information system. The authors considered that use of the system has implications for the motivating potential of work through its impacts on skill variety, task identity, significance, autonomy, and work performance. Their results show that a system's impact on motivating potential is significant for US. Moreover, system quality, information quality, and user support attributes of the IS have significant direct effects on US as well as indirect effects through motivating potential. A high performing system is thus important for US as it provides a platform to increase the motivating potential of work.
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Azzouni, Abdullah, and Christopher Scaffidi. "A Review of Potential Motivational Factors Behind End-User Programming." International Journal of End-User Computing and Development 7, no. 1 (January 2018): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijeucd.2018010101.
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End-user programming, which consists of people writing programs for their own use, has the potential to provide diverse benefits both personally and professionally. Yet, while studies indicate over 70 million American workers use spreadsheets or do other programming at least monthly, hundreds of millions do not. To identify opportunities for motivating broader and deeper levels of end-user programming, this article reviews existing literature on what factors drive adoption of end-user programming. A total of 15 factors were identified as potential motivations. Viewing these results through the lens of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs suggests opportunities for future research.
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Мюллер, YElyena Myullyer, and Катаева. "Motivational potential development of industrial enterprices' employees." Management of the Personnel and Intellectual Resources in Russia 2, no. 1 (February 12, 2013): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/197.
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The need of conscious application of various scientifi c approaches to development of motivational potential of industrial enterprises’ employees for their eff ective activity increasing is considered in this article. Authors reveal the motivational profi le content, show the social and economic importance of motivation in industrial enterprises activity in the whole and reveal motivating factors for employees of surveyed enterprises in Orenburg region.
Analyzing the concept of characteristics of J. Hekman and G. Oldham’ works, authors come to conclusion that by means of works’ motivational potential indicator introduced by Hekman and G. Oldham it becomes possible to predict the labor behavior of workers with a certain degree of accuracy.
Thus, development of motivational potential of enterprises’ employees gives the chance of additional result receiving from production ctivity as the eff ect source.
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Chen, Gilad, Ruth Kanfer, Richard P. DeShon, John E. Mathieu, and Steve W. J. Kozlowski. "The motivating potential of teams: Test and extension of cross-level model of motivation in teams." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 110, no. 1 (September 2009): 45–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2009.06.006.
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DREHER, MARIAM JEAN. "MOTIVATING STRUGGLING READERS BY TAPPING THE POTENTIAL OF INFORMATION BOOKS." Reading & Writing Quarterly 19, no. 1 (January 2003): 25–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10573560308206.
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Flick, Laura G. "Motivating Francophone ESL Learners in Quebec: A Pilot Study on the Potential Role of eTandem with Anglophone Peers in Ontario." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30238.
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With globalization and the growth of the World Wide Web, it is increasingly important for non-Anglophone students to acquire a functional level of English before graduating from secondary school. However, Francophone students in the province of Quebec who are learning English as a second language (ESL) face particular challenges that hinder their development of English proficiency, not the least of which is motivation. This quasi-experimental case study explores the effects of an eTandem project with Anglophone peers on the motivation of Francophone ESL learners in secondary school. The results indicate that Francophone students who completed the eTandem project showed greater motivational intensity, greater desire to learn the target language, and less anxiety. It also appears that technical problems, scheduling issues and anxiety contributed to the majority of Francophone students discontinuing the project. Recommendations are made to integrate eTandem projects into Quebec’s ESL curriculum and to address the anxiety issues of students in class.
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Kenjangada, Kariappa Ganapathy, and Marcus Bjersér. "Value as a Motivating Factor for Collaboration : The case of a collaborative network for wind asset owners for potential big data sharing." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Centrum för innovations-, entreprenörskaps- och lärandeforskning (CIEL), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-40699.
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The world's need for energy is increasing while we realize the consequences of existing unsustainable methods for energy production. Wind power is a potential partial solution, but it is a relatively new source of energy. Advances in technology and innovation can be one solution, but the wind energy industry is embracing them too slow due to, among other reasons, lack of incentives in terms of the added value provided. Collaboration and big data may possibly provide a key to overcome this. However, to our knowledge, this research area has received little attention, especially in the context of the wind energy industry. The purpose of this study is to explore value as a motivating factor for potential big data collaboration via a collaborative network. This will be explored within the context of big data collaboration, and the collaborative network for wind asset owners O2O WIND International. A cross sectional, multi-method qualitative single in-depth case study is conducted. The data collected and analyzed is based on four semi-structured interviews and a set of rich documentary secondary data on the 25 of the participants in the collaborative network in the form of 3866 pages and 124 web pages visited. The main findings are as follows. The 25 participants of the collaborative network were evaluated and their approach to three different types of value were visualized through a novel model: A three-dimensional value approach space. From this visualization clusters of participants resulting in 6 different approaches to value can be distinguished amongst the 25 participants. Furthermore, 14 different categories of value as the participants express are possible to create through the collaborative network has been identified. These values have been categorized based on fundamental types of value, their dimensions and four value processes. As well as analyzed for patterns and similarities amongst them. The classification results in a unique categorization of participants of a collaborative network. These categories prove as customer segments that the focal firm of the collaborative network can target. The interviews resulted in insights about the current state of the industry, existing and future market problems and needs as well as existing and future market opportunities. Then possible business model implications originating from our findings, for the focal firm behind the collaborative network O2O WIND International as well as the participants of the collaboration, has been discussed. We conclude that big data and collaborative networks has potential for value creation in the wind power sector, if the business model of those involved takes it into account. However, more future research is necessary, and suggestions are made.
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Saiter, Mark R. (Mark Roberts). "Job Satisfaction of Registered Nurses in a Patient Focused Care Team." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501078/.
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The purpose of this study was to determine whether the job satisfaction and motivating potential of nursing jobs would be higher for nurses using Patient Focused Care (PFC) compared with nurses not using PFC. Nurses from a large metropolitan hospital served as subjects. Data were collected using three instruments designed to measure job satisfaction and motivating potential. Those instruments were the Job Diagnostic Survey, the Job Descriptive Inventory, and the McCloskey/Mueller Satisfaction Scale. It was hypothesized that nurses working on PFC nursing units would demonstrate greater job satisfaction and motivating potential than nurses working on non-PFC nursing units. The hypotheses were not supported. Results were explained by, among other things, accounting for the nature of the instruments used. The two instruments which gave data counter to the hypothesized direction were not nursing-oriented.
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Frederick, Alexandra. "Motivations and Potential Consequences Associated with Health-Conscious Drinking." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1596145257958257.
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Klompstra, Leonie. "Physical activity in patients with heart failure : motivations, self-efficacy and the potential of exergaming." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för omvårdnad, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-130933.
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Background: Adherence to recommendations for physical activity is low in patients with heart failure (HF). It is essential to explore to what extent and why patients with HF are physically active. Self-efficacy and motivation for physical activity are important in becoming more physically active, but the role of self-efficacy in the relationship between motivation and physical activity in patients with HF is unknown. Alternative approaches to motivate and increase self-efficacy to exercise are needed. One of these alternatives might be using exergames (games to improve physical exercise). Therefore, it is important to obtain more knowledge on the potential of exergaming to increase physical activity. The overall aim was to describe the physical activity in patients with HF, with special focus on motivations and self-efficacy in physical activity, and to describe the potential of exergaming to improve exercise capacity. Methods: Study I (n = 154) and II (n = 101) in this thesis had a cross-sectional survey design. Study III (n = 32) was a 12-week pilot intervention study, including an exergame platform at home, with a pretest-posttest design. Study IV (n = 14) described the experiences of exergaming in patients who participated in the intervention group of a randomized controlled study in which they had access to an exergame platform at home. Results: In total, 34% of the patients with HF had a low level of physical activity, 46% had a moderate level, 23% reported a high level. Higher education, higher selfefficacy, and higher motivation were significantly associated with a higher amount of physical activity. Barriers to exercise were reported to be difficult to overcome and psychological motivations were the most important motivations to be physically active. Women had significantly higher total motivation to be physically active. Self-efficacy mediated the relationship between exercise motivation and physical activity; motivation leads to a higher self-efficacy towards physical activity. More than half of the patients significantly increased their exercise capacity after 12 weeks of using an exergame platform at home. Lower NYHA-class and shorter time since diagnosis were factors significantly related to the increase in exercise capacity. The mean time spent exergaming was 28 minutes per day. Having grandchildren and being male were related to more time spent exergaming. The analysis of the qualitative data resulted in three categories describing patients’ experience of exergaming: (i) making exergaming work, (ii) added value of exergaming, (iii) no appeal of exergaming. Conclusion: One-third of the patients with HF had a low level of physical activity in their daily life. Level of education, exercise self-efficacy, and motivation were important factors to take into account when advising patients with HF about physical activity. In addition to a high level of motivation to be physically active, it is important that patients with HF have a high degree of exercise self-efficacy. Exergaming has the potential to increase exercise capacity in patients with HF. The results also showed that this technology might be suitable for some patients while others may prefer other kinds of physical activity.Achtergrond: Het aantal patiënten met hartfalen (HF) dat zich kan houden aan de aanbevolen lichamelijke activiteit is over het algemeen klein. Het is essentieel om te onderzoeken in hoeverre en waarom patiënten met HF lichamelijk actief zijn. Het hebben van self-efficacy (een persoonlijke overtuiging dat hij/zij capabel is om te doen wat nodig is om een taak te volbrengen op een bepaald kwaliteitsniveau) en motivatie voor lichamelijke activiteit is belangrijk om meer lichamelijk actief te worden. Het is echter niet duidelijk wat de rol van self-efficacy is in relatie tot motivatie en lichamelijke activiteit bij patiënten met HF. Alternatieve benaderingen zijn nodig om patiënten te motiveren lichamelijk actiever te zijn en de self-efficacy te verhogen. Een van de mogelijke alternatieven om patiënten met HF te helpen lichamelijk actiever te zijn is de inzet van exergames: computerspellen om fysieke activiteit te bevorderen. Er is tot nu toe geen onderzoek is gedaan naar de inzet van exergaming bij patiënten met hartfalen en de mogelijkheden van exergaming om patiënten te stimuleren tot meer lichamelijke activiteit. Het doel van dit proefschrift is het beschrijven van de lichamelijke activiteit van patiënten met HF met extra aandacht voor de motivatie en self-efficacy ten opzichte van lichamelijke activiteit. Een tweede doel is om inzicht te krijgen in de mogelijkheid om exergaming te gebruiken om de lichamelijke activiteit van patiënten met HF te verhogen. Methode: In dit proefschrift worden gegevens van 4 studies beschreven (studie I-IV). Studie I (n = 154) en II (n = 101) hebben een crosssectioneel survey design. Studie III (n = 32) is een 12 weken durende pilot-interventie studie met een pretest-posttest design waarbij patiënten 12 weken lang een exergame platform thuis konden gebruiken. Studie IV (n = 14) beschrijft de ervaringen van patiënten die deelnamen aan de interventiegroep van een gerandomiseerde studie waarin zij een exergame platform thuis kregen. Resultaten: In totaal hebben 34% van alle patiënten met hartfalen een laag niveau van lichamelijke activiteit, 46% had een matig niveau, en 23% een hoog niveau. Een hoger opleidingsniveau, self-efficacy en motivatie significant werd geassocieerd met een hogere hoeveelheid lichamelijke activiteit. Het bleek dat barrières voor fysieke activiteit moeilijk te overbruggen waren. Met betrekking tot motivatie, bleek dat psychologische motivatie de belangrijkste drijfveer was om fysiek actief te zijn. Verder bleek dat vrouwen een significant hogere motivatie voor fysieke activiteit hebben dan mannen. Een ander belangrijk resultaat was dat self-efficacy de relatie tussen motivatie en lichamelijke activiteit beïnvloedt; motivatie leidt tot een hogere self-efficacy wat leidt tot hogere fysieke activiteit. Met betrekking tot de resultaten van exergaming bleek dat de inspanningscapaciteit van meer dan de helft van de patiënten aanzienlijk was toegenomen na 12 weken gebruik gemaakt te hebben van een exergame platform thuis. Patiënten met een lager NYHA-klasse en een kortere tijd na de diagnose verhogen significant meer hun inspanningscapaciteit. Ook bleek dat het hebben van een partner en kleinkinderen gerelateerd is aan meer tijd besteden aan exergaming. De analyse van de ervaringen van patiënten in de kwalitatieve studie resulteerde in drie categorieën: (i) zorgen dat exergaming werkt, (ii) toegevoegde waarde van exergaming, (iii) geen aantrekking tot exergaming. Conclusie: Een derde van de patiënten met HF heeft een laag niveau van lichamelijke activiteit in hun dagelijks leven. Opleidingsniveau, self-efficacy en motivatie zijn belangrijke factoren om rekening mee te houden bij het geven van advies aan patiënten met HF betreffende fysieke activiteit. Naast een hoge motivatie tot bewegen is het belangrijk dat patiënten met HF een hoog niveau van self-efficacy hebben om fysiek actief te zijn. Exergaming heeft potentie om inspanningscapaciteit bij patiënten met HF te verhogen. Uit de resultaten blijkt ook dat deze techniek geschikt is voor een deel van de patiënten, terwijl een deel van de patiënten wellicht liever andere vormen van lichamelijke activiteit beoefenen.
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Chaillou, Anne-Clémence. "Influence des affects positifs sur le contrôle cognitif chez les volontaires sains et les personnes souffrant de schizophrénie." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016STRAJ120.
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L’objectif de ce travail de thèse a été d’avancer dans la compréhension des mécanismes par lesquels les émotions positives modulent cognition et comportement. En nous basant sur des mesures comportementales et électrophysiologiques, nous avons abordé ce questionnement chez des volontaires sains, et des personnes souffrant de schizophrénie, pathologie dans laquelle les affects n’influencent pas le comportement de manière appropriée. Nos résultats montrent que les émotions positives diminuent de manière globale la préparation attentionnelle, un des mécanismes de contrôle cognitif. Néanmoins, lorsqu’elles sont associées à un fort niveau de motivation, elles permettent au contraire une mobilisation plus importante du contrôle cognitif. Cette modulation du contrôle cognitif par les émotions positives est plus susceptible d’apparaitre chez les personnes présentant une tendance marquée à ressentir des émotions négatives. Chez les personnes souffrant de schizophrénie, cette modulation ne s’effectue pas de manière appropriée, y compris lorsque l’expérience affective positive est induite de manière non conscienteThe aim of this project was to deepen our understanding of the mechanisms by which positive emotions modulate cognition and behavior. By using behavioral and electrophysiological measures, we addressed this question in a population of healthy controls, and in patients suffering from schizophrenia, because in this disease affect does not appropriately modulate behavior. Our results show that positive emotions globally decrease attentional preparation, a cognitive control mechanism. Nevertheless, when associated with a high level of motivation, they allow for improved recruitment of cognitive control. This modulation of cognitive control by positive emotions is more likely to appear in individuals who have a marked tendency towards experiencing negative emotions. In patients suffering from schizophrenia, this modulation is not appropriate, not even for non-consciously induced positive affective experiences
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Persson, Staffan. "Produktivitet hos FoU-anställda i Kina : Att uppnå full potential." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Institutionen för ekonomi och informatik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-4111.
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Studien söker utreda hur anställda inom en västerländsk organisation som arbetar med forskning och utveckling i Kina kan nå sin fulla potential och göra vad som är bäst för organisationen. Detta innebär att vi måste förstå vad som hindrar de anställda från att göra vad som är bäst för organisationen samt hur de anställda bäst bör styras eller uppmuntras. Med ett kvalitativt synsätt har en fallstudie genomförts hos ett västerländskt företag som etablerat sig i Kina för att sänka sina utvecklingskostnader samt komma närmare den växande marknaden. Management control systems används som ramverk för att utforska hur de anställda påverkas av de olika sätt som de styrs i sitt arbete. Användandet av personnel controls lämpar sig väl för västerländska organisationer som arbetar med FoU i kina. Det är av yttersta vikt att anställa rätt person till rätt arbetsuppgift. För att detta ska vara möjligt är det inte tillräckligt att endast erbjuda en god miljö. Lönen måste även vara hög nog för att inte påverka de anställdas motivation negativt samt göra det möjligt att anställa rätt personer. Förutom detta måste alla arbetsteam hållas stabila under lång tid för att de anställda ska kunna prestera. Cultural controls kan också användas men kräver att organisationens strategi anpassas till de kinesiska normerna samt lägger en större vikt vid att arbetsteam hålls stabila. Goal-setting fungerar väl för att motverka styrproblemet lack of direction men FoU-anställda i Kina motiveras mest i sitt arbete genom autonomi, personligt mästerskap samt ett ”högre syfte”.The study seeks to investigate how employees in a western organization that works with research and development in China can reach their full potential and do what is best for the organization. This means that we need to understand what prevents employees from doing what is best for the organization and how employees should best be guided or encouraged. With a qualitative approach, a case study is conducted in a western company which was established in China in order to lower their development costs and get closer to the growing market. Management control systems is used as a framework for exploring how the employees are affected by the different ways they are controlled in their work. Use of personnel controls is well suited for western organizations working with R & D in China. It is of highest importance to hire the right person for the right job. For this to be possible, it is not enough to just provide a good environment. The salary must also be high enough to not affect the employees’ motivation negatively and make it possible to hire the right people. Besides this, all teams must be kept stable for a long time in order for the employees to reach high performance. Cultural controls can also be used but requires that the organization’s strategy is adapted to the Chinese norms and puts a greater emphasis on work teams remaining stable. Goal-setting works well to counteract the steering problem lack of direction, but R & D employees in China are most motivated in their work by autonomy, personal mastery, and a “higher purpose”.
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Hill, Andrew P. "Multidimensional perfectionism and motivation in sport : potential mediating and moderating variables." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/131898.
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Recent research has found that self-oriented and socially prescribed perfectionism have distinct consequences for athletes. The purpose of the thesis was to extend this research by further examining their motivational consequences for athletes and identifying the psychological mechanisms that explain their divergent consequences. The first two studies suggested that the positive relationship between socially prescribed perfectionism and athlete burnout was mediated by the tendency to engage in validation-seeking and utilise avoidant coping, whereas the inverse relationship between self-oriented perfectionism and athlete burnout was mediated by the tendency to utilise problem-focused coping and eschew avoidant coping. Because these initial studies provided little evidence to suggest that self-oriented perfectionism has negative psychological consequences for athletes, the nature of self-oriented perfectionism and its consequences were examined more closely in two subsequent studies. A comparative study examining similarities and differences in the correlates of selforiented perfectionism and conscientious achievement striving found that while both include a commitment to high standards, self-oriented perfectionism also includes a concern over mistakes, fear of failure and negative reactions to imperfection. An experimental study examining the response of student-athletes II higher in this dimension of perfectionism to successive failures further suggested that, in comparison to those with lower levels of self-oriented perfectionism, those with higher levels of self-oriented perfectionism experienced a more pronounced increase in threat following an initial failure and reported withdrawing effort from the subsequent performance. The final two studies suggest that the divergent consequences of these two dimensions of perfectionism may also be explained by differences in the controllability of sources of self-worth and evaluative standards. In addition, in some instances, perceptions of the achievement climate may influence the self-criticism experienced by perfectionists. Collectively, this series of studies suggest that socially prescribed perfectionism will invariably lead to motivational and psychological difficulties for athletes. In contrast, such difficulties may not be inevitable for those with higher levels of self-oriented perfectionism; however, it may render athletes vulnerable to psychological difficulties when personal standards are not meet.
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Nilsson, Ida. "Att snärja en potentiell folkmassa." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för teknik och samhälle (TS), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-20065.
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Webb 2.0 skapar idag förutsättningar för nya typer av webbtjänster som använder sig av viljansom vi användare, har till att delta och bidra. Crowdsourcing är ett samlingsbegrepp för huranvändare över hela världen kan skapa värde och inriktar sig på att få många individer attdelta. Det kan röra sig om att skapa en ny logotyp till ett företag, samla in pengar till ett projekteller kategorisera data.I denna empiriska studie granskar vi innehåll, instruktioner och funktioner på fyracrowdsourcingtjänster för att undersöka hur deltagare motiveras till att delta. Vi utgår frånKaufmanns m.fl. motivationsmodell som är framtagen just för crowdsourcingdeltagande ochmotivationen bakom deltagandet. Utifrån motivationsmodellen har frågor formulerats somanvänds för att granska tjänsternas innehåll. Vi tittar på skillnader och likheter mellancrowdsourcingtjänster som erbjuder möjlig monetär ersättning och de som inte gör det. Vi tittarockså på relevansen i Kaufmanns m.fl. motivationsmodell.Att titta på skillnader och likheter visar sig vara otillräckligt och resultaten visar istället treprimära mönster. Ej varierande faktorer, där motivationsfaktorerna används i sammautsträckning mellan och inom kategorierna. Dessa är generellt applicerbaramotivationsfaktorer, framför allt faktorerna utveckla personliga färdigheter och externavärderingar. I det andra mönstret, faktorer varierande med kategori, hittar vi likheter inom menskillnader mellan kategorierna. Där står motivationsfaktorn tidsfördriv ut från de andrafaktorerna. Faktorer varierande oberoende av kategori, är det tredje mönstret som beskriverskillnader både inom och mellan kategorierna. T.ex. används motivationsfaktorn attmarknadsföra sig på olika sätt av samtliga tjänster. Utöver detta finner vi också stöd förKaufmanns m.fl. motivationsmodell och slutligen bekräftas fynd från tidigare studier.Web 2.0 creates opportunities for new sorts of Web services that take advantage of the user’swill to participate and contribute. Crowdsourcing allows users all over the world to be a part ofcreating value. It might involve creating a logo for a new business, raise funds for a project orcategorize data.In this empirical study, we examine the content, instructions and functions of fourcrowdsourcing services, to determine how the services are creating motivation and participation.In 2011 Kaufmann et al. published a motivation model for crowdsourcing participation thataims to explain motivation behind the participation. The model contains thirteen motivationalfactors that we in this study developed into thirteen questions. We use these questions toexamine the content of the crowdsourcing services. Primarily we search for differences andsimilarities between services that offer possible monetary compensation and those who don’toffer any possible monetary compensation. We also want to test the relevance of Kaufmann’s etal. motivation model.Differences and similarities is shown to be insufficient to describe the findings made in thisstudy. Instead we identified three patterns. The first one has similarities within and between thetwo categories, where the motivational factors, human capital advancement and actionsignificance by external values, showed to have the strongest connection to this pattern. Thesecond pattern we found similarities within but differences between the categories, showed thatthe motivational factor, pastime, differs the most between categories. The third pattern,differences within and between categories, is the unexpected finding in this study. Among othermotivational factors, signaling is used differently by all the four services. We also found supportfor Kaufmann’s et al. motivation model, and finally confirmed findings from previous studies.
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O'Bear, Nathaniel Ryan. "Relationship Among Compensation, Benefits, Intrinsic Motivators, and Potential Referral Candidates." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7711.
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High rates of turnover among truck drivers in the United States limit the abilities of organizations to effectively move freight if organizational leaders cannot efficiently and economically replace drivers. The purpose of this correlational study was to examine the relationship among compensation, benefits, intrinsic motivators, and potential referral recruiting in transportation organizations. Herzberg’s 2-factor theory was the theoretical framework for this study. Secondary data were collected for 566 Class A truck drivers from an Illinois-based partner organization’s 2018 employee satisfaction survey. The results of the multiple linear regression analyses indicated a significant relationship exists, F(3,562) = 258.323, p < .001, R2 = .580, among compensation (β = .231, p < .001), benefits (β = .101, p < .002), intrinsic motivators (β = .554, p < .001), and potential referral recruiting in transportation organizations. Overall, the independent variables accounted for 58% of the variance in the dependent variable with intrinsic motivators having the largest effect. The implication of these findings for positive social change includes equipping business leaders with information about motivational factors for recruiting drivers through referrals, which might increase community employment levels to improve the standard of living.
Books on the topic "Motivating potential"
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Flower, Robert. Decoding potential: The science of achievement: pathways to understanding. 2nd ed. Bronxville, NY: Gilchrist Institute For Cognitive Sciences, 2006.
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Singh, Nagendra P. Potential women entrepreneurs: Their profile, vision, and motivation. New Delhi: National Institute for Enterpreneurship and Small Business Development, 1985.
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Shelest, D. S. Tvorcheskii potentsial trudovykh kollektivov. Kiev: Vyshcha shkola, 1989.
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McGreevy, Ann. Education matters: Nurturing the potential of children and teachers. East Windsor Hill, CT: Synergectics, 1992.
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James, Barrett, ed. Aptitude, personality, and motivation tests: Assess your potential and plan your career. 2nd ed. London: Kogan Page, 2004.
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Tina, Berthelot, ed. Coaching skills for leaders: Helping others reach their potential. Boston, MA: NETg/Thomson Learning, 2006.
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Veronica, McDermott, ed. Unlocking student potential: How do I identify and activate student strengths? Alexandria, Virginia: ASCD, 2015.
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Cromack, William H. Hire me!: Maximize your earning potential by becoming a great employee. Austin, TX: Wizard Academy Press, 2006.
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Geoff, Matthews, ed. Engaged: Unleashing your organization's potential through employee engagement. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2012.
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Plester-Silk, Sylvia. Unleashing team potential: Lessons for managers from my canine friends. Kitchener, Ontario]: On Purpose Consulting, 2013.
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Kulik, Carol T. "The Motivating Potential of an Associate Editor’s Role." In Opening the Black Box of Editorship, 223–30. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230582590_22.
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Chen, Weiqin, Martin Bang, Daria Krivonos, Hanna Schimek, and Arnau Naval. "An Immersive Virtual Reality Exergame for People with Parkinson’s Disease." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 138–45. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58796-3_18.
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AbstractParkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects primarily motor system. Physical exercise is considered important for people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) to slow down disease progression and maintain abilities and quality of life. However, people with PD often experience barriers to exercises that causes low-level adherence to exercise plans and programs. Virtual Reality (VR) is an innovative and promising technology for motor and cognitive rehabilitation. Immersive VR exergames have potential advantages by allowing for individualized skill practice in a motivating interactive environment without distractions from outside events. This paper presents an immersive virtual reality (VR) exergame aiming at motor training on fingers and hand-and-eye coordination. The results from the usability study indicate that immersive VR exergames have potential to provide motivating and engaging physical exercise for people with PD. Through this research, we hope to contribute to evidence-based design principles for task-specific immersive VR exergames for patients with Parkinson’s Disease.
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Albano, Claudio Sonaglio, and Nicolau Reinhard. "Open Government Data: Facilitating and Motivating Factors for Coping with Potential Barriers in the Brazilian Context." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 181–93. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44426-9_15.
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Wasserman, Theodore, and Lori Wasserman. "Motivation Potential Is Not Motivation in Action." In Motivation, Effort, and the Neural Network Model, 85–91. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58724-6_7.
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Kalenscher, Tobias, Lisa-Maria Schönfeld, Sebastian Löbner, Markus Wöhr, Mireille van Berkel, Maurice-Philipp Zech, and Marijn van Wingerden. "Rat Ultrasonic Vocalizations as Social Reinforcers—Implications for a Multilevel Model of the Cognitive Representation of Action and Rats’ Social World." In Language, Cognition, and Mind, 411–38. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50200-3_19.
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AbstractRats are social animals. For example, rats exhibit mutual-reward preferences, preferring choice alternatives that yield a reward to themselves as well as to a conspecific, over alternatives that yield a reward only to themselves. We have recently hypothesized that such mutual-reward preferences might be the result of reinforcing properties of ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) emitted by the conspecifics. USVs in rats serve as situation-dependent socio-affective signals with important communicative functions. To test this possibility, here, we trained rats to enter one of two compartments in a T-maze setting. Entering either compartment yielded identical food rewards as well as playback of pre-recorded USVs either in the 50-kHz range, which we expected to be appetitive or therefore a potential positive reinforcer, or in the 22-kHz range predicted to be aversive and therefore a potential negative reinforcer. In three separate experimental conditions, rats chose between compartments yielding either 50-kHz USVs versus a non-ultrasonic control stimulus (condition 1), 22-kHz USVs versus a non-ultrasonic control stimulus (condition 2), or 50-kHz versus 22-kHz USVs (condition 3). Results show that rats exhibit a transient preference for the 50-kHz USV playback over non-ultrasonic control stimuli, as well as an initial avoidance of 22-kHz USV relative to non-ultrasonic control stimuli on trend-level. As rats progressed within session through trials, and across sessions, these preferences diminished, in line with previous findings. These results support our hypothesis that USVs have transiently motivating reinforcing properties, putatively acquired through association processes, but also highlight that these motivating properties are context-dependent and modulatory, and might not act as primary reinforcers when presented in isolation. We conclude this article with a second part on a multilevel cognitive theory of rats’ action and action learning. The “cascade” approach assumes that rats’ cognitive representations of action may be multilevel. A basic physical level of action may be invested with higher levels of action that integrate emotional, motivational, and social significance. Learning in an experiment consists in the cognitive formation of multilevel action representations. Social action and interaction in particular are proposed to be cognitively modeled as multilevel. Our results have implications for understanding the structure of social cognition, and social learning, in animals and humans.
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Marchi, Valentina, Valentina Apicerni, and Alessandra Marasco. "Assessing Online Sustainability Communication of Italian Cultural Destinations – A Web Content Mining Approach." In Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2021, 58–69. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65785-7_5.
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AbstractOnline sustainability communication attracts a considerable attention in tourism research. This study focuses on sustainability communication in official destination websites for informing and motivating visitors to adopt sustainable practices and behaviors. To advance previous research in this area, it adopts a web content mining approach to assess the characteristics of online contents of a sample of 20 Italian cultural destinations. The main dimensions and typologies of sustainability-oriented practices in tourism are used as basis to develop a text classifier for the automated content analysis. A total of 2.975 web pages from official city websites and official tourism promotion websites of the destinations is analyzed through this approach to investigate the online contents relating to the environmental, economic, socio-cultural and general dimensions sustainability as well as their emotional appeal. The analysis reveals that about 15.8% of total online texts contains information to promote sustainability-oriented behaviors at the destination. It indicates that the communication is more specifically focused on environmental/economic/socio-cultural practices than generically referring to sustainable/responsible tourism. However, in line with previous research, it highlights that destinations do not sufficiently balance these pillars in their online communication. Further, the websites’ texts scarcely leverage the persuasive potential of affective appealing messages. The implications of this automated approach for improving the design of online sustainability-related contents are also discussed.
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Czechowicz, Alexander, and Sven Langbein. "Shape Memory Valves: Motivation, Risks, and Potentials." In Shape Memory Alloy Valves, 101–12. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19081-5_7.
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Zazu, Cryton, and Anri Manderson. "Agroecology and Climate Change Adaptation: Farmers’ Experiences in the South African Lowveld." In African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation, 1–16. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42091-8_181-1.
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AbstractMotivated by interest to increase the resilience of smallholder farmers to adapt to climate change through uptake of agroecology, two community development organizations commissioned a project evaluation upon which this book chapter is written. The chapter discusses how smallholder farmers were experiencing implementing agroecology, trying to understand the reasons for adopting such an approach to farming. The chapter also explores and problematizes the relationship between trends in adoption of agroecology and the smallholder farmers’ awareness of climate change and adaptation. The chapter confirms that agronomic and income generation are the key reasons for adoption of agroecology. Most of the farmers reminisced about how their crop yields had declined and soils no longer producing enough to feed the family. Other motivating factors for uptake of agroecology included lack of employment, limited income sources, access to health organic foods, and medicinal value of herbs grown. The chapter further concluded that the correlation between adoption of agroecology and farmers’ awareness of it as a climate change adaptation measure is generally weak. Smallholder farmers adopted agroecology more for responding to issues of food security, than any conscious desire to adapt to climate change. Implications of this observation is that practitioners working with smallholder farmers need to rethink their approaches and design of interventions to integrate climate change education and learning, so that strong connections between the agroecological practices promoted and adaptation to climate change are made. Such an approach has potential to improve the sustainability and value of the agroecological practices adopted.
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Zazu, Cryton, and Anri Manderson. "Agroecology and Climate Change Adaptation: Farmers’ Experiences in the South African Lowveld." In African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation, 363–78. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45106-6_181.
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AbstractMotivated by interest to increase the resilience of smallholder farmers to adapt to climate change through uptake of agroecology, two community development organizations commissioned a project evaluation upon which this book chapter is written. The chapter discusses how smallholder farmers were experiencing implementing agroecology, trying to understand the reasons for adopting such an approach to farming. The chapter also explores and problematizes the relationship between trends in adoption of agroecology and the smallholder farmers’ awareness of climate change and adaptation. The chapter confirms that agronomic and income generation are the key reasons for adoption of agroecology. Most of the farmers reminisced about how their crop yields had declined and soils no longer producing enough to feed the family. Other motivating factors for uptake of agroecology included lack of employment, limited income sources, access to health organic foods, and medicinal value of herbs grown. The chapter further concluded that the correlation between adoption of agroecology and farmers’ awareness of it as a climate change adaptation measure is generally weak. Smallholder farmers adopted agroecology more for responding to issues of food security, than any conscious desire to adapt to climate change. Implications of this observation is that practitioners working with smallholder farmers need to rethink their approaches and design of interventions to integrate climate change education and learning, so that strong connections between the agroecological practices promoted and adaptation to climate change are made. Such an approach has potential to improve the sustainability and value of the agroecological practices adopted.
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Antos, Carolin. "Conceptions of Infinity and Set in Lorenzen’s Operationist System." In Paul Lorenzen -- Mathematician and Logician, 23–46. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65824-3_3.
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AbstractIn the late 1940s and early 1950s, Lorenzen developed his operative logic and mathematics, a form of constructive mathematics. Nowadays this is mostly seen as a precursor of the better-known dialogical logic (Notable exceptions are the works of Schroeder-Heister 2008; Coquand and Neuwirth 2017; Kahle and Oitavem 2020.), and one might assume that the same philosophical motivations were present in both works. However, we want to show that this is not everywhere the case. In particular, we claim that Lorenzen’s well-known rejection of the actual infinite, as stated in Lorenzen (1957), was not a major motivation for operative logic and mathematics. Rather, we argue that a shift happened in Lorenzen’s treatment of the infinite from the early to the late 1950s. His early motivation for the development of operationism is concerned with a critique of the Cantorian notion of set and with related questions about the notions of countability and uncountability; it is only later that his motivation switches to focusing on the concept of infinity and the debate about actual and potential infinity.
Conference papers on the topic "Motivating potential"
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Hiemstra, Djoerd, and Anne Carine Zagt. "Developing Communication Competencies Through E-Learning: The Motivating Potential of Adaptive Video Role Play." In Third International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head17.2017.5264.
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Abstract To develop competence through e-learning tools, students must be motivated to use these tools. Hence, we conducted two empirical studies to explore the motivating potential of an adaptive video role playing game (AVR) for training communication competencies. In Study 1 (N = 54), we used a within-person design to examine students’ motivation in three learning conditions: in the classroom, when playing the AVR, and when doing homework. The results showed that, relative to the homework condition, in the AVR condition students were higher in perceived competence, relatedness, intrinsic motivation, and flow. No difference between the classroom condition and the AVR condition were found. In Study 2 (N = 150), we used a randomized experimental design to examine the motivational consequences of using videos (AVR) rather than photos (APR) in the adaptive role playing game. We found that, relative to students in the APR condition, students in the AVR condition were higher in relatedness and flow. No differences in perceived competence, autonomy, and intrinsic motivation were observed. We conclude that an AVR may have considerable motivational benefits relative to common homework assignments, and some motivational benefits relative to an APR. Keywords: e-learning, video role play, games, motivation, flow
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Al-Ghamdi, Sharefah A., and Sumayah Al-Rabiaah. "Motivating Factors and Potential Deterrents of Using Wikipedia in Teaching in Higher Education." In 2018 1st International Conference on Computer Applications & Information Security (ICCAIS). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/cais.2018.8441946.
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Theriualt, Andrew, Mark Nagurka, and Michelle J. Johnson. "Therapeutic potential of haptic TheraDrive: An affordable robot/computer system for motivating stroke rehabilitation." In 2014 5th IEEE RAS & EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob). IEEE, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/biorob.2014.6913812.
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Madera, Sergio, and Pablo Figueroa. "Study on the Potential of Videogames for Motivating People to Pursue their Own Goals." In 2019 International Conference on Virtual Reality and Visualization (ICVRV). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icvrv47840.2019.00035.
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Egbeyemi, Abdurrafii, Amobichukwu Jude Eke, and Aminu Abba Yahaya. "Examining the Carbon Trading Potential in Nigerian Oil Fields." In SPE Nigeria Annual International Conference and Exhibition. SPE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/207100-ms.
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Abstract Nigeria holds reserves circa 200 TCF of gas, the largest gas reserve in Africa. With this comes the challenge of managing the environmental impacts of flaring associated with oil production. The Federal Government of Nigeria in recognition of the urgency to address the growing environmental concerns attending gas flaring in Nigeria and response to its commitment made further to the endorsement of UNFCC's Paris Agreement and the Zero Routine Flaring by 2030 initiative by the World Bank declared a national flare out target of 2020. In 2016, the Federal Executive Council approved the implementation of the Nigerian Gas Flare Commercialization Programme (NGFCP) which was the flagship programme for the implementation of the Government's flare-out policy. The programme seeks to, via a competitive and transparent bid process, grant the right to access the gas at the flare-stack. The issues of relevance to this study include – The development and subsequent enactment of new regulations guiding the treatment of flare gas in Nigerian oilfields – The regulations implemented a new flare payment regime adopting the polluter pays principle which internalized to a significant extent the environmental cost of flaring thereby motivating a behavioral change by operators. Also, the recognition of the carbon benefits that will follow the implementation of projects under the NGFCP and the stance of the government that any such benefits will be vested in the state. This study examines the carbon trading potentials of flare gas in Nigeria. This is key because players in the sector now seek all revenue opportunities that accrue to the implementation of flare down/ out project. In doing so, Carbon benefits now feature among potential revenue streams. This study models several composition scenarios to quantify the extent (if any) of any such benefits. The study also examines gas use cases and their carbon sequestration potentials to create a realistic band estimating the carbon benefits that will emanate from all use scenarios.
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Chen, Tian, Paul Egan, Fritz Stöckli, and Kristina Shea. "Studying the Impact of Incorporating an Additive Manufacturing Based Design Exercise in a Large, First Year Technical Drawing and CAD Course." In ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2015-47312.
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Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a revolutionary technology in the manufacturing sector, although it has yet to become a cornerstone of formal engineering education. This paper discusses the procedure, result, and impact of incorporating physical prototyping, design iteration, and Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) in a first-year, first-semester technical drawing and CAD course. In the course, students design balloon powered model car assemblies and are expected to learn core concepts of engineering design, such as modeling, assemblies, and tolerancing. The course consists of 473 students that each design up to two unique model cars. These model cars are fabricated using AM from these CAD designs and returned to students for assembly. Surveys are given to students to empirically validate the usefulness of incorporating AM in the course, with regards to motivating students and improving their ability to accurately translate imagined designs from CAD to physical products. The results show improvement in student intrinsic motivation concerning CAD processes. Student design abilities are also assessed: when student designs do not function as intended, it corresponds with a greater mismatch in how they imagine their CAD design in comparison to its final physical assembly. The mismatch on average decreases for students who design a second model car, which suggests an improvement in design skills. As a whole, our findings demonstrate the feasibility and benefits of including AM in a first-year course, particularly with respect to improving student motivation and their development of key CAD-related skills. Such motivation and skill development is particularly important early in an engineer’s career as it can impact their potential to learn and design over the course of their budding career.
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Aumuller, John J., and Vincent A. Carucci. "Evaluation of ASME Pressure Vessel Code Prohibitions on Rod and Bar Stock and Potential Remedies." In ASME 2014 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2014-28081.
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The ASME Codes and referenced standards provide industry and the public the necessary rules and guidance for the design, fabrication, inspection and pressure testing of pressure equipment. Codes and standards evolve as the underlying technologies, analytical capabilities, materials and joining methods or experiences of designers improve; sometimes competitive pressures may be a consideration. As an illustration, the design margin for unfired pressure vessels has decreased from 5:1 in the earliest ASME Code edition of the early 20th century to the present day margin of 3.5:1 in Section VIII Division 1. Design by analysis methods allow designers to use a 2.4:1 margin for Section VIII Division 2 pressure vessels. Code prohibitions are meant to prevent unsafe use of materials, design methods or fabrication details. Codes also allow the use of designs that have proven themselves in service in so much as they are consistent with mandatory requirements and prohibitions of the Codes. The Codes advise users that not all aspects of construction activities are addressed and these should not be considered prohibited. Where prohibitions are specified, it may not be readily apparent why these prohibitions are specified. The use of “forged bar stock” is an example where use in pressure vessels and for certain components is prohibited by Codes and standards. This paper examines the possible motive for applying this prohibition and whether there is continued technical merit in this prohibition, as presently defined. A potential reason for relaxing this prohibition is that current manufacturing quality and inspection methods may render a general prohibition overly conservative. A recommendation is made to better define the prohibition using a more measurable approach so that higher quality forged billets may be used for a wider range and size of pressure components. Jurisdictions with a regulatory authority may find that the authority is rigorous and literal in applying Code provisions and prohibitions can be particularly difficult to accept when the underlying engineering principles are opaque. This puts designers and users in these jurisdictions at a technical and economic disadvantage. This paper reviews the possible engineering considerations motivating these Code and standard prohibitions and proposes modifications to allow wider Code use of “high quality” forged billet material to reflect some user experiences.
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Sampat, Sonal R., Drew A. Robinson, George P. Ackerman, Matthew V. Dermksian, Gerard A. Ateshian, and Clark T. Hung. "Applied Osmotic Loading for Promoting Development of Engineered Cartilage." In ASME 2012 Summer Bioengineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/sbc2012-80449.
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The avascular nature of cartilage and the harsh joint loading environment lead to a poor intrinsic healing capacity after injury, motivating the development of cell-based therapies for repair. Synovium-derived stem cells (SDSCs) have the potential for differentiating down a chondrogenic lineage and are thought to aid in articular cartilage repair after damage in vivo1. In the present study, we adopt a two-pronged strategy for growing clinically relevant cartilage grafts. Firstly, we compare the potential of SDSCs versus chondrocytes for engineering functional constructs. Secondly, we investigate the effect of extracellular osmolarity on mechanical and biochemical properties of SDSCs and similarly passaged chondrocytes in 3D culture. This approach is motivated by the fact that the in situ osmotic environment of chondrocytes varies with proteoglycan content and tissue deformation, altering the regulation of chondrocyte activity through mechanotransduction pathways2. We test the hypothesis that application of a hypertonic, more physiologic osmotic environment (created by addition of NaCl and KCl) relative to hypotonic media (300 mOsm), during 3D culture of SDSCs or chondrocytes in agarose hydrogels, improves the biochemical composition and mechanical properties of engineered tissue constructs.
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Michopoulos, John G., Samuel Lambrakos, and Athanasios Iliopoulos. "Multiphysics Challenges for Controlling Layered Manufacturing Processes Targeting Thermomechanical Performance." In ASME 2014 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2014-35170.
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In an effort to enable on-demand process control of additive manufacturing processes for achieving component performance by design from a modeling and simulation perspective and context, we introduce a method for identifying relevant modeling and simulation challenges for the purpose of motivating research that addresses this problem. We first present the abstraction of the multiscale modeling processes connecting process control with functional performance both from the forward and inverse perspectives. We subsequently introduce a brief ontology describing the ordering of dependency and membership of all components of a model in order to isolate the potential areas where challenges can be exposed. We subsequently select some features that are usually ignored by the community during modeling. In particular, we demonstrate using a simple problem of mass and heat transfer, which is relevant to layered additive manufacturing, the implications and dangers related to ignoring process dependence on deposition path history.
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Hosseini, Zahra, and Sirkku Kotilainen. "THE ROLE OF COMMUNICATION AS THE DRIVE FOR IMMIGRATION: A CASE STUDY IN FINLAND." In International Conference on Education and New Developments. inScience Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36315/2021end083.
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Recently many studies have remarked migration issues. Thus, in countries such as Finland, having a governmental strategy for increasing the number of migrants, especially educated immigrants or encouraging international students to stay, is highly important. While Finland is recognized as the happiest country, it would be arguable why it is not included in the list of top destination countries for immigration. The literature shows communication is one of the most issues for immigrants and international students, particularly those from Asian countries. Therefore, this study aims to understand how technology-based communication such as the use of social media influences international students' decision to immigrate. Respectively, 23 Iranian tertiary-level students were interviewed as the case of the study. Uses and Gratification theory was employed to investigate the role of media usage among the participants. The findings showed that although there is high desire among the participants to immigrate to Finland, the difficulty and unpopularity of the Finnish language and culture of distance in Finland reduces the motivation to emigrate and made the participants feel being the outsider in the university and society. The use of communication media has facilitated university admissions and communication with family, friends, compatriots and other international students, but has not been able to connect them to Finnish society. While educated immigrants in every country are human resources, the results of this study draw our attention to explore different aspects of communication, identifying motivating factors and reducing frustration among international students for immigration. These results emphasize on the development of strategies and tools for harnessing the potential of media and technology to connect international students as future educated immigrants in the host community.
Reports on the topic "Motivating potential"
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Ajzenman, Nicolás, Gregory Elacqua, Diana Hincapié, Analia Jaimovich, Florencia López Bóo, Diana Paredes, and Alonso Román. Do You Want to Become a Teacher?: Career Choice Motivation Using Behavioral Strategies. Inter-American Development Bank, May 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003325.
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Qualified teachers are a fundamental input for any education system. Yet, many countries struggle to attract highly skilled applicants to the teaching profession. This paper presents the results of a large-scale intervention to attract high performing high-school students into the teaching profession in Chile. The intervention was a three-arm email campaign which made salient three types of motivations typically associated with the teaching profession: intrinsic/altruistic, extrinsic, and prestige-related. The objective was to identify which type of message better appealed to high performing students to nudge them to choose a teaching major. The “intrinsic” and “prestige” arms reduced applications to teaching majors among high performers, while the “extrinsic” arm increased applications among low performers. A plausible interpretation could be that the “intrinsic” and “prestige” messages made more salient an issue that could otherwise be overlooked by high performing students (typically from more advantaged households), negatively impacting their program choice: that while the social value of the teaching profession has improved, it still lags behind other professions that are valued more by their families and social circles. In turn, the “extrinsic” arm made salient the recent improvements in the economic conditions of the teaching profession in Chile, thus appealing to low performing students who in general come from disadvantaged families and for whom monetary incentives are potentially more relevant. These results emphasize the importance of having a clear picture of the inherent motivations that could influence individuals career choice. Making salient certain types of motivations to the wrong target group could lead to undesired results.
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Olsen, Laurie, Kathryn Lindholm-Leary, Magaly Lavadenz, Elvira Armas, and Franca Dell'Olio. Pursuing Regional Opportunities for Mentoring, Innovation, and Success for English Learners (PROMISE) Initiative: A Three-Year Pilot Study Research Monograph. PROMISE INITIATIVE, February 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.15365/ceel.seal2010.
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The Pursuing Regional Opportunities for Mentoring, Innovation, and Success for English Learners (PROMISE) Initiative Research Monograph is comprised of four sub-studies that took place between 2006 and 2009 to examine the effectiveness of the PROMISE Initiative across six implementing counties. Beginning in 2002, the superintendents of the six Southern California County Offices of Education collaborated to examine the pattern of the alarmingly low academic performance of English learners (EL) across Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, San Diego, Riverside, and Ventura. Together, these six counties serve over one million EL students, more than 66% of the total EL population in the state of California, and close to 20% of the EL population in the nation. Data were compiled for the six counties, research on effective programs for ELs was shared, and a common vision for the success of ELs began to emerge. Out of this effort, the PROMISE Initiative was created to uphold a critical vision that ensured that ELs achieved and sustained high levels of proficiency, high levels of academic achievement, sociocultural and multicultural competency, preparation for successful transition to higher education, successful preparation as a 21st century global citizen, and high levels of motivation, confidence, and self-assurance. This report is organized into six chapters: an introductory chapter, four chapters of related studies, and a summary chapter. The four studies were framed around four areas of inquiry: 1) What is the PROMISE model? 2) What does classroom implementation of the PROMISE model look like? 3) What leadership skills do principals at PROMISE schools need to lead transformative education for ELs? 4) What impact did PROMISE have on student learning and participation? Key findings indicate that the PROMISE Initiative: • resulted in positive change for ELs at all levels including achievement gains and narrowing of the gap between ELs and non-ELs • increased use of research-based classroom practices • refined and strengthened plans for ELs at the district-level, and • demonstrated potential to enable infrastructure, partnerships, and communities of practice within and across the six school districts involved. The final chapter of the report provides implications for school reform for improving EL outcomes including bolstering EL expertise in school reform efforts, implementing sustained and in-depth professional development, monitoring and supporting long-term reform efforts, and establishing partnerships and networks to develop, research and disseminate efforts.
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Olsen, Laurie, Kathryn Lindholm-Leary, Magaly Lavadenz, Elvira Armas, and Franca Dell'Olio. Pursuing Regional Opportunities for Mentoring, Innovation, and Success for English Learners (PROMISE) Initiative: A Three-Year Pilot Study Research Monograph. PROMISE INITIATIVE, February 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.15365/ceel.promise2010.
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The Pursuing Regional Opportunities for Mentoring, Innovation, and Success for English Learners (PROMISE) Initiative Research Monograph is comprised of four sub-studies that took place between 2006 and 2009 to examine the effectiveness of the PROMISE Initiative across six implementing counties. Beginning in 2002, the superintendents of the six Southern California County Offices of Education collaborated to examine the pattern of the alarmingly low academic performance of English learners (EL) across Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, San Diego, Riverside, and Ventura. Together, these six counties serve over one million EL students, more than 66% of the total EL population in the state of California, and close to 20% of the EL population in the nation. Data were compiled for the six counties, research on effective programs for ELs was shared, and a common vision for the success of ELs began to emerge. Out of this effort, the PROMISE Initiative was created to uphold a critical vision that ensured that ELs achieved and sustained high levels of proficiency, high levels of academic achievement, sociocultural and multicultural competency, preparation for successful transition to higher education, successful preparation as a 21st century global citizen, and high levels of motivation, confidence, and self-assurance. This report is organized into six chapters: an introductory chapter, four chapters of related studies, and a summary chapter. The four studies were framed around four areas of inquiry: 1) What is the PROMISE model? 2) What does classroom implementation of the PROMISE model look like? 3) What leadership skills do principals at PROMISE schools need to lead transformative education for ELs? 4) What impact did PROMISE have on student learning and participation? Key findings indicate that the PROMISE Initiative: • resulted in positive change for ELs at all levels including achievement gains and narrowing of the gap between ELs and non-ELs • increased use of research-based classroom practices • refined and strengthened plans for ELs at the district-level, and • demonstrated potential to enable infrastructure, partnerships, and communities of practice within and across the six school districts involved. The final chapter of the report provides implications for school reform for improving EL outcomes including bolstering EL expertise in school reform efforts, implementing sustained and in-depth professional development, monitoring and supporting long-term reform efforts, and establishing partnerships and networks to develop, research and disseminate efforts.