Motivating knowledge workers - the challenge for the 1990s

Article Abstract:

High performance levels from knowledge employees can be obtained by understanding key motivators. Knowledge workers cannot be managed in the same way as manufacturing employees. The study is based on 322 questionnaires returned by UK research and development staff which identified 4 main motivators: personal development; operational autonomy; task achievement and remuneration. Four motivated states are identified once finanical requirements are met: motivated behaviour; supervised behaviour; employee-orientated behaviour and organisation-orientated behaviour.

Employee motivation

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Who's Afraid of the 1990s?

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Three points of difference between a recent British Treasury publication on public spending over the next decade and a paper published in 1982 by the Central Policy Review Staff, no longer in existence, on the same subject are reviewed. Several important issues, including cuts in ministry budgets, diminishing North Sea oil revenues, and increased spending on the state earnings-related pension scheme are not discussed in any detail in the treasury paper. The British government must decide whether it can afford increased public spending.

Laws, regulations and rules, Reports, Forecasts and trends, Budget, Budgeting, Budgets, National government, Government spending policy, Federal government

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How do workers decide their jobs? The influence of income, wage and job characteristics

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A study investigated the impact of non-wage income, wage and hedonic prices of non-pecuniary job attributes upon the labor supply and the job attributes demand of workers. Within this context, the analysis focused on the economic decision-making processes of Spanish workers. The investigation will enable firms to be more sensitive to the behavior of such workers when they decide their jobs and, therefore, to adapt to the labor market by furnishing the particular vector of wage and job attributes that individuals desire.

Job Description & Qualifications, Influence, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Wages, Wages and salaries, Labor supply, Labor force, Income, Workers, Employee attitudes, Job descriptions, Job qualifications, Vocational qualifications

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