As a community-based innovation, the open source software (OSS) development phenomenon has received great attention from researchers and practitioners. Understanding the factors that affect the involvement and contributions of participants in OSS projects is of signifi cance to facilitate project success. This paper investigates the effects of motivation on participant performance in OSS projec...

The aim of this study is to analyze the influence organizational culture a business higher education institution on student motivation. From theoretical point view, motivation results from relationship between subjective factors and external conditions, such as organization which associated. Therefore, quantitative, descriptive cross-sectional was carried out with 263 students an Iese located i...

Consumers often form preferences based on the presented attributes of choice options. Previous research has suggested that consumers tend to form their preferences using the attributes that are related to common aspects between the options (i.e., alignable differences) and ignore attributes that are unique to individual options (i.e., nonalignable differences). We combine cognitive psychology a...

Orientation: The 360-degree performance assessments are frequently deployed. However, scores by different reviewers might erroneously be aggregated, without a clear understanding of the biases that inherent to rating sources. Research purpose: purpose this study was determine whether there conceptual and mean score differences between self- managerial-ratings on dimensions. Motivation for study...

OBJECTIVE This study examines the effective factors in enhancing school manager's job motivation from viewpoint of school mangers, teachers, education department managerial and staff experts in teaching, and also identifies and prioritizes each of these factors and indicators. METHOD For selecting a representative sample and increasing measurement precision, 587 people were selected using cla...

People are frequently challenged by goals that demand effort and persistence. As a consequence, philosophers, psychologists, economists, and others have studied the factors that enhance task motivation. Using a sample of undergraduate students and a sample of working adults, we demonstrate that the manner in which an incentive is framed has implications for individuals' task motivation. In both...

On an international scale, it can be argued that the key currency of business entities is human resources. They are a dominant part corporate assets. also decisive determinants competitiveness if they work with adequate performance, which influenced by motivation. Managers aware this and pay increased attention to study factors increase performance motivation employees. In Slovakia, importance ...