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Leadership and/vs. Management.
One or other is better. You can not have one without the other. A lot of talk on this subject. I am convinced that we need even more. There is gold in the research data and there are diamonds in the experience of seasoned executives.
Without saying anything new: a leader is the one that influences the...
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Our necessity of social recognition meets halfway with the value given to us by other people.
There will always be a tendency to behave egalitarian in an effort to make people feel good. The level of hypocrisy involved makes it useless.
People feel the lie. If they are your employees they will despise you. If they are you...
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Psychologist David McClelland has developed a Theory of Needs that focuses not on the hierarchical relationship between them ( Maslow & Alderfer) but on how the needs are shaped over time and how they manifest as a motivational pattern.
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Achievement (n Ach) with the following characteristics:
A preference for...
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Values are not just basic beliefs, needs or standards relatively stable across the life span.
Values are the things that really matter to you!
They develop under the influence of culture, society, and personality and can be classified in ethical, economic, social, aesthetic, and ideological.
The Rokeach value system is classifying...
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Intrinsic motivation is much better described by Reiss’s classification:
Acceptance – the need for approval
Curiosity – the need to think
Eating – the need for food
Family – the need to raise children
Honor – the need to be loyal to a moral code
Idealism – the need for social...
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Job Characteristics Model (JCM) is almost 30 years old. There are 5 characteristics defined by J. Richard Hackman and Greg Oldham in 1980. A sixth one, self-expression, was added by O’Brien in 1985.
Task Identity – related to the fact that a piece of work can be identified as having a beginning and an end or...
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