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Posts tagged with 'Motivation'

Research

December 4, 2020

How working-time flexibility affects workers’ productivity in a routine job

Field experiment shows positive effects of allowing greater autonomy at work

  • autonomy
  • Colombia
  • field experiment
  • flexibility
  • part-time
  • productivity
  • routine
  • working time
  • Ana Maria Diaz
  • Bart Cockx
  • Luz Magdalena Salas
  • Marie Boltz
Opinion

March 22, 2019

Work, knowledge and non-hierarchical cooperation

Werner Eichhorst outlines his vision of “human(e) capitalism” in the working world of the future

  • cooperation
  • craft
  • future of work
  • human capital
  • management
  • technology
  • Trust
  • work organization
  • Werner Eichhorst
Research

July 6, 2018

Job applicants under a vacancy referral scheme are viewed as less motivated

Experiment with professional recruiters in Belgium

  • active labor market policies
  • discrimination
  • employment agencies
  • experiment
  • interview
  • job application
  • job seekers
  • motivation
  • signaling
  • unemployment
  • vacancy
  • Eva Van Belle
  • Marijke De Couck
  • Ralf Caers
  • Stijn Baert
  • Valentina Di Stasio
Research

March 15, 2018

The impact of self-selection on performance

Our behavior is strongly influenced by comparisons with others. These “others” are not usually assigned to us, but we choose […]

  • choice
  • experiment
  • field experiment
  • motivation
  • peer effects
  • performance
  • preferences
  • self-selection
  • Jonas Radbruch
  • Lukas Kießling
  • Sebastian Schaube
Research

July 11, 2017

Long-term unemployed through the eyes of recruiters: Less motivated, less talented and less trainable

Recent research has shown that employers are reluctant to hire long-term unemployed: the longer job candidates’ unemployment spell, the lower […]

  • cognitive skills
  • hiring
  • job applications
  • long-term unemployment
  • motivation
  • productivity
  • recruiting
  • social skills
  • Eva Van Belle
  • Marijke De Couck
  • Ralf Caers
  • Stijn Baert
  • Valentina Di Stasio
Research

November 21, 2016

Money to study? Research on motivation and incentives for students

Differences in educational outcomes based on socioeconomic background is a well-documented phenomenon and a key driver of inequalities later in […]

  • education
  • education policy
  • goal-setting approaches
  • goals
  • highschool
  • incentives
  • motivation
  • student performance
  • university
  • Damon Clark
  • David Gill
  • Mark Rush
  • Robert Metcalfe
  • Sally Sadoff
  • Simon Burgess
  • Victoria L. Prowse
Research

August 27, 2015

How setting the right goals can boost business productivity

Businesses require motivated and productive employees. Monetary incentives, such as pay-for-performance schemes are a popular tool to encourage better employee […]

  • business
  • employee motivation
  • goal-setting approaches
  • goals
  • monetary incentives
  • monitoring
  • performance
  • production goals
  • productivity
  • project milestones
  • real-time feedback
  • risk-taking
  • SMART
  • smart goal setting
  • unethical behavior
  • Sebastian J. Goerg
  • Sebastian Kube
Research

November 5, 2014

Online quizzes can motivate students to learn more

A large fraction of students fail at university. One potential reason is that students do not exercise enough effort on […]

  • achievement
  • effort
  • exams
  • grades
  • incentive
  • motivation
  • participation
  • quiz
  • student
  • university
  • Arnaud Chevalier
  • Melanie Lührmann
  • Peter Dolton

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