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- People (6)
- News (355)
- Research (849)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (3)
- Faculty Publications (187)
- Article
How to Really Motivate Salespeople
- 19 Dec 2022
- News
What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't
- 2018
- Working Paper
Is Overconfidence a Motivated Bias? Experimental Evidence
- Article
Beyond Emotional Similarity: The Role of Situation-specific Motives
- 31 Dec 2019
- News
How Selfish Motives Drive People To Make Dumb Mistakes
- Research Summary
Learning Motives
In another research stream, Professor Myers probes the underlying reasons that motivate people to learn. He has confirmed a conceptual framework that identifies four distinct learning motives that vary to the extent that they are intrinsic, extrinsic, and self- or... View Details
- 22 Oct 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Motivate Me, Please
- 25 Oct 2017
- News
The Motivations Behind Giving
- 2021
- Article
Don't Get It or Don't Spread It: Comparing Self-interested versus Prosocial Motivations for COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors
- January 1996
- Background Note
The Motivation for Creativity in Organizations
- Article
Introducing the Sociopolitical Motive x Intergroup Threat Model to Understand How Monoracial Perceivers' Sociopolitical Motives Influence Their Categorization of Multiracial People
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
- 23 Oct 2013
- News
Three Things that Actually Motivate Employees
- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Motivation through hard knocks
CSML: Leading People
Today’s principals are charged with a wide array of responsibilities – from generating better student outcomes, to recruiting, managing, and retaining high-quality faculty and staff, to cultivating collaboration and collective learning. Leading People provides... View Details
- 2006
- Working Paper
The Limits of Authority: Motivation versus Coordination
This paper studies the effects of open disagreement on motivation and coordination. It shows how, in the presence of differing priors, motivation and coordination impose conflicting demands on the allocation of authority, leading to a trade-off between the... View Details