In the study of human behavior, motivation is a basic psychological process, like perception and learning. On the other hand, it must be remembered that motivation should not be thought as the only explanation of behavior. Many people equate the causes of perception and learning, it is presented here as being a very important process in understanding behavior. It interacts with and acts in conj...

Individuals’ belief about the controllability of what happens to them is a core element of their understanding of how they live in the world. Those who attribute their successes to internal causes have a greater degree of achievement motivation than those who attribute their successes to external causes. Those who attribute their failure to external causes, rather than to internal causes have s...

This study investigated the relationships of demographic factors (age, marital status, gender, job tenure, and educational level), emotional intelligence, work-role salience, achievement motivation and job satisfaction to organizational commitment of industrial workers. Participants were 320 employees (male = 170, female = 150) randomly selected from 5 service and 5 manufacturing organizations ...

the aim of present study was to determine the relationship between emotional intelligence and its five domains with job satisfaction in physical education teachers. the research method was descriptive – correlation and statistical population consisted of all physical education teachers of zanjan province in 1386-1387. out of 486 physical education teachers, the sample of the study consisted of ...

Introduction. Well-trained and highly motivated community health workers are critical for delivery of community-based health care services. Understanding what motivates especially community health care providers for better community health requires the use of psychometrically reliable and valid scale. This study was conducted to validate job motivation scale in Gamo Gofa Zone, Southern Ethiopia...

ISSN 2277-5056 | © 2013 Bonfring Abstract--This study aims at exploring the impact of high performance HR practices on employees’ job performance. The study sought to establish the effect of job design, training and development, motivation, supervisory support, working environment and compensation on employees’ job performance in Leather goods manufacturing companies at Vellore district. The re...

Employee commitment is an indispensible cog in an organization's growth and motivation influences talent to drive this growth. Employees exhibit certain behaviors by going beyond the normal call of duty. These behaviors are called Organizational Citizenship Behaviors (OCB) and they contribute significantly to an organization's growth. Job characteristics like Skill Variety, Task Identity, Task ...

The present study was conducted on the sample of 50 workers employed in open cast mines of BCCL, Dhanbad (INDIA). The ultimate aim of the present study was to assess the stressstate and its effect on task performance, job involvement and job satisfaction of workers employed in stress arousing job situations i.e., open cast mines. The following variables were used in the present study: (1) Predi...