This post is by Kim Carter, the Executive Director of the Q.E.D. Foundation, an organization of adults and youth working together to create and sustain student-centered learning communities, and a ...

Public Productivity & Management Review, Vol. 21, No. 3 (Mar., 1998), pp. 230-250 (21 pages) In this study 629 public and private sector employees ranked 15 motivational factors according to both ...

Are you a pecking pigeon? Of course not. Nor are your colleagues. Yet the motivational theories that dominate our workplace trace back to noted psychologist B.F. Skinner and his studies on how to ...

Most business owners understand the importance of keeping employees motivated, and often make motivation one of a managers' job responsibilities. It's easy to overlook the need for motivation for ...

According to , co-author of the study and an associate professor of marketing at Kellogg, motivation is all relative. The danger of getting "stuck" occurs because of a shift in perception as we ...

Businesses with unmotivated employees often face low productivity and high turnover rates. Multiple theories help explain how workers are motivated and provide suggestions for how to increase ...