I worked in an organization that had just finished a high-profile project. We been challenged to develop chipset for new customer on accelerated schedule. hadn’t quite met all the milestones or specifications, but we were close. Overall, successful. Most importantly, was pleased. led one of product development teams. At start project, our general manager provided additional motivation. He sugge...

This paper evaluates the sources of inventor motivation, their impacts on inventor productivity, and the interaction between intrinsic and extrinsic motivations using novel data from a survey of Japanese inventors on 5,278 patents conducted by Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) in 2007. Our study reveals that two intrinsic motives--satisfaction from contributing to scienc...

Knowledge sharing is an important activity in virtual communities (VC). Recently, some researchers have explored various motivators that may influence VC members' contribution. Although providing rewards has been found to significantly motivate employees to share knowledge in organizational research, it also has been found to diminish intrinsic motivation and lead to reduced efforts in in some ...

The pressure on higher education institutions (HEIs) to realize third mission activities continues grow, intensifying the search for incentives motivate academics engage with stakeholders outside their HEI. Previous studies have found limitations in intrinsically motivating academic engagement; therefore, this study investigates extrinsic regulation of motivations via incentives. authors identi...

BACKGROUND A vast body of social and cognitive psychology studies in humans reports evidence that external rewards, typically monetary ones, undermine intrinsic motivation. These findings challenge the standard selfish-rationality assumption at the core of economic reasoning. In the present work we aimed at investigating whether the different modulation of a given monetary reward automatically ...

background: motivation is a driver to health worker performance in most ghanaian hospitals. in view of this, ghana’s ministry of health has rolled out enough motivational policies to accentuate work performance of health workers. objective: the focus of this study was to examine the impact of motivation and identify how intrinsic and extrinsic motivating factors affect the work performance of h...

People join peer-to-peer networks for economic and social reasons. From an economic perspective, people join peer-to-peer (P2P) networks based on the size of the networks. However, from a sociological perspective, when people adopt technologies, they create an alternative social network motivated by extrinsic and intrinsic rewards. In this study, we develop a conceptual framework for measuring ...

Incentives and Prosocial Behavior We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect. Rewards or punishments (whether material or image-related) create doubt about the true motive for which good deeds are performed and this “overjustification effect” can induce a partial or even net crowding ...

In a 13-week field study conducted in The Netherlands, participants were provided with daily rewards – monetary and in-kind, in order to encourage them to avoid driving during the morning rush-hour. Participants could earn a reward (money or credits to keep a Smartphone handset), by driving to work earlier or later, by switching to another mode or by teleworking. The collected data, complemente...