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  • 1.  What motivates employees?

    Posted 11-15-2016 23:18
    Dear Colleagues, 
    In teaching about expectancy theory and in particular, valence, I like to have my MBA students write down what they think a "35 year old, male, white collar worker, married with no kids" would rank in terms of various job factors (e.g., wages, promotion/growth, appreciation for work done, doing interesting work, job security, etc.) I saw a paper by Kovach (1987) on this topic, and Wiley (1995) seemed to update it with another round of surveys completed by employees. 

    My question to the listserv is whether there have been any further updates to this survey since the mid-90's? Any surveys in the mid 2000's or post-recession?  Even better, I always find it interesting when they compare the supervisor responses of "this is what I think my employees would rank" to what the employees themselves actually rank, and then revealing the discrepancies. 

    Any direction to this line of research and designing incentives with employee's relative valence in mind would be much appreciated. Thanks!

    -Alex

    Kovach, K. A. (1987). What motivates employees? Workers and supervisors give different answers. Business Horizons, 30(5), 58-65.

    Wiley, C. (1997). What motivates employees according to over 40 years of motivation surveys. International Journal of Manpower, 18(3), 263-280.



    Alex L. Rubenstein, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Management
    Fogelman College of Business & Economics
    The University of Memphis 
    323 FCB Building 
    Memphis, TN 38152-3120

    901.678.2910 | memphis.edu/management
    rbnstein@memphis.edu





  • 2.  What motivates employees?

    Posted 11-16-2016 01:23

    Prof Kanfer work is in motivation. please find her/his latest review.

    Kanfer, R., & Chen, G. (2016). Motivation in organizational behavior: History, advances and prospects. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074959781630351X


    On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Alex Rubenstein <rbnstein@memphis.edu> wrote:
    Dear Colleagues, 
    In teaching about expectancy theory and in particular, valence, I like to have my MBA students write down what they think a "35 year old, male, white collar worker, married with no kids" would rank in terms of various job factors (e.g., wages, promotion/growth, appreciation for work done, doing interesting work, job security, etc.) I saw a paper by Kovach (1987) on this topic, and Wiley (1995) seemed to update it with another round of surveys completed by employees. 

    My question to the listserv is whether there have been any further updates to this survey since the mid-90's? Any surveys in the mid 2000's or post-recession?  Even better, I always find it interesting when they compare the supervisor responses of "this is what I think my employees would rank" to what the employees themselves actually rank, and then revealing the discrepancies. 

    Any direction to this line of research and designing incentives with employee's relative valence in mind would be much appreciated. Thanks!

    -Alex

    Kovach, K. A. (1987). What motivates employees? Workers and supervisors give different answers. Business Horizons, 30(5), 58-65.

    Wiley, C. (1997). What motivates employees according to over 40 years of motivation surveys. International Journal of Manpower, 18(3), 263-280.



    Alex L. Rubenstein, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Management
    Fogelman College of Business & Economics
    The University of Memphis 
    323 FCB Building 
    Memphis, TN 38152-3120

    901.678.2910 | memphis.edu/management
    rbnstein@memphis.edu






  • 3.  What motivates employees?

    Posted 11-16-2016 08:14

    Alex,

     

    I have used the following article to generate interesting discussions and insights in my executive MBA courses:

     

    ·       Aguinis, H., Joo, H., & Gottfredson, R. K. 2013. What monetary rewards can and cannot do: How to show employees the money. Business Horizons, 56: 241-249. (available at http://hermanaguinis.com/pubs.html)

     

    I hope this helps!

     

    All the best,

     

    --Herman.

     

    Herman Aguinis, Ph.D.

    Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Management

    George Washington University School of Business

    2201 G Street, NW

    Washington, DC 20052

    http://hermanaguinis.com/

     

    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG] On Behalf Of Alex Rubenstein
    Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2016 11:18 PM
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG
    Subject: [OB-LIST] What motivates employees?

     

    Dear Colleagues, 

    In teaching about expectancy theory and in particular, valence, I like to have my MBA students write down what they think a "35 year old, male, white collar worker, married with no kids" would rank in terms of various job factors (e.g., wages, promotion/growth, appreciation for work done, doing interesting work, job security, etc.) I saw a paper by Kovach (1987) on this topic, and Wiley (1995) seemed to update it with another round of surveys completed by employees. 

     

    My question to the listserv is whether there have been any further updates to this survey since the mid-90's? Any surveys in the mid 2000's or post-recession?  Even better, I always find it interesting when they compare the supervisor responses of "this is what I think my employees would rank" to what the employees themselves actually rank, and then revealing the discrepancies. 

     

    Any direction to this line of research and designing incentives with employee's relative valence in mind would be much appreciated. Thanks!

     

    -Alex

     

    Kovach, K. A. (1987). What motivates employees? Workers and supervisors give different answers. Business Horizons, 30(5), 58-65.



    Wiley, C. (1997). What motivates employees according to over 40 years of motivation surveys. International Journal of Manpower, 18(3), 263-280.



    Alex L. Rubenstein, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Management

    Fogelman College of Business & Economics
    The University of Memphis 
    323 FCB Building 
    Memphis, TN 38152-3120

    901.678.2910 | memphis.edu/management
    rbnstein@memphis.edu

     

     

     



  • 4.  What motivates employees?

    Posted 11-16-2016 10:54
    Dear Alex, while you are looking for 'new' insights, the problems of today are caused by ignorance or neglecting 'old' knowledge.

    I would strongly recommend that you take a look at William Deming's outstanding work:

    Deming, W. E. (1982). Quality, Productivity, and Competitive Position. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Advanced Engineering Study, 01.01.1982.

    Deming, W. E. (1993). The New Economics for Industry, Government, and Education. Boston, Ma: MIT Press. ISBN 0262541165.

    Deming, W. E. (2000a). The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education –2nd Edition Paperback, August 11, 2000, Cambridge; Massachussetts: The MIT Press.

    Deming, W. E. (2000b). Out of the crisis. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. ISBN 0262541157.


    and Dr.Deming's 14 points:


    http://www.cambridge.org/at/academic/subjects/management/organisation-studies/changing-organization-agency-theory-cross-cultural-context?format=HB&isbn=9781107146808

    https://books.google.at/books?id=ZrxGDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Kaijun+Guo%22&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiOmODnu6rQAhXE1xQKHbKmA2MQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

    https://www.amazon.de/Changing-Organization-Agency-Cross-Cultural-Context/dp/1107146801

     

     

    Please take a look at

    Dauber, D., Fink, G. and Yolles, M. (2012)

    Configuration Model of Organisational Culture

    Sage Open 2012, so far 93,500 downloads from

    http://sgo.sagepub.com/content/2/1/2158244012441482

     



  • 5.  What motivates employees?

    Posted 11-16-2016 14:55
    Hi Alex,

    The General Social Survey (https://gssdataexplorer.norc.org/) has data where people were asked to rank order the importance of various aspects of their jobs like pay, job security, doing important work, etc. I think the most recent data available is from 2014.

    Michael D. Johnson
    Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior
    The Boeing Company Professor of Business Management
    Foster School of Business, University of Washington
    Box 353226
    544 Paccar Hall
    Seattle, WA 98195


    On Nov 15, 2016, at 8:18 PM, Alex Rubenstein <rbnstein@MEMPHIS.EDU> wrote:

    Dear Colleagues, 
    In teaching about expectancy theory and in particular, valence, I like to have my MBA students write down what they think a "35 year old, male, white collar worker, married with no kids" would rank in terms of various job factors (e.g., wages, promotion/growth, appreciation for work done, doing interesting work, job security, etc.) I saw a paper by Kovach (1987) on this topic, and Wiley (1995) seemed to update it with another round of surveys completed by employees. 

    My question to the listserv is whether there have been any further updates to this survey since the mid-90's? Any surveys in the mid 2000's or post-recession?  Even better, I always find it interesting when they compare the supervisor responses of "this is what I think my employees would rank" to what the employees themselves actually rank, and then revealing the discrepancies. 

    Any direction to this line of research and designing incentives with employee's relative valence in mind would be much appreciated. Thanks!

    -Alex

    Kovach, K. A. (1987). What motivates employees? Workers and supervisors give different answers. Business Horizons, 30(5), 58-65.

    Wiley, C. (1997). What motivates employees according to over 40 years of motivation surveys. International Journal of Manpower, 18(3), 263-280.



    Alex L. Rubenstein, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Management
    Fogelman College of Business & Economics
    The University of Memphis 
    323 FCB Building 
    Memphis, TN 38152-3120

    901.678.2910 | memphis.edu/management
    rbnstein@memphis.edu






  • 6.  What motivates employees?

    Posted 11-17-2016 05:51

    Dear Alex,

     

    I know this is not a direct response to your question, but maybe something to think about and broaden the content: Why not mix up the demographics in your example?

    I think especially MBAs need to wrap their mind around the fact that it will not only be „people like them" working for them, that there is a lot more diversity and also diversity in motivations (across and within different demographic groups). Probably you do this already (and probably there is not as much research findings to relate to for this), but I think it would be a great exercise to have different student groups think about the most motivating job factors for different demographics (different ages, different genders, different personal situations, maybe throw some race in there). This might lead to a richer and more realistic discussion.

     

    Best,

    Daniela

     

     

    Daniela Noethen, PhD
    Assistant Professor in the Department of People Management

    and Organisation
    Tel. +34 932 806 162 (ext 2609)



    Av. Torreblanca, 59
    E-08172 Sant Cugat
    www.esade.edu

     

     

     

    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG] On Behalf Of Alex Rubenstein
    Sent: miércoles, 16 de noviembre de 2016 5:18
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG
    Subject: [OB-LIST] What motivates employees?

     

    Dear Colleagues, 

    In teaching about expectancy theory and in particular, valence, I like to have my MBA students write down what they think a "35 year old, male, white collar worker, married with no kids" would rank in terms of various job factors (e.g., wages, promotion/growth, appreciation for work done, doing interesting work, job security, etc.) I saw a paper by Kovach (1987) on this topic, and Wiley (1995) seemed to update it with another round of surveys completed by employees. 

     

    My question to the listserv is whether there have been any further updates to this survey since the mid-90's? Any surveys in the mid 2000's or post-recession?  Even better, I always find it interesting when they compare the supervisor responses of "this is what I think my employees would rank" to what the employees themselves actually rank, and then revealing the discrepancies. 

     

    Any direction to this line of research and designing incentives with employee's relative valence in mind would be much appreciated. Thanks!

     

    -Alex

     

    Kovach, K. A. (1987). What motivates employees? Workers and supervisors give different answers. Business Horizons, 30(5), 58-65.



    Wiley, C. (1997). What motivates employees according to over 40 years of motivation surveys. International Journal of Manpower, 18(3), 263-280.



    Alex L. Rubenstein, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Management

    Fogelman College of Business & Economics
    The University of Memphis 
    323 FCB Building 
    Memphis, TN     38152-3120

    901.678.2910 | memphis.edu/management
    rbnstein@memphis.edu

     

     

     



  • 7.  What motivates employees?

    Posted 11-17-2016 11:18
    Hi Daniela, 
    Thank you, and this is a good point. In looking at the Kovach study, they do break down motivating factors by age, gender, income (albeit severely range restricted), and job type. In many cases, you do see differences (money becomes less important as people age; interesting work becomes more important)

    I am curious as to how these trends have changed since 1986, if at all. I would hypothesize job security is quite important if the survey had been done in 2010...

    -Alex


    On Nov 17, 2016, at 4:51 AM, Noethen , Daniela <daniela.noethen@ESADE.EDU> wrote:

    Dear Alex,
     
    I know this is not a direct response to your question, but maybe something to think about and broaden the content: Why not mix up the demographics in your example? 
    I think especially MBAs need to wrap their mind around the fact that it will not only be „people like them" working for them, that there is a lot more diversity and also diversity in motivations (across and within different demographic groups). Probably you do this already (and probably there is not as much research findings to relate to for this), but I think it would be a great exercise to have different student groups think about the most motivating job factors for different demographics (different ages, different genders, different personal situations, maybe throw some race in there). This might lead to a richer and more realistic discussion.
     
    Best,
    Daniela
     
     
    Daniela Noethen, PhD
    Assistant Professor in the Department of People Management
    and Organisation
    Tel. +34 932 806 162 (ext 2609)



    Av. Torreblanca, 59
    E-08172 Sant Cugat
    www.esade.edu
     
     
    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG] On Behalf Of Alex Rubenstein
    Sent: miércoles, 16 de noviembre de 2016 5:18
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG
    Subject: [OB-LIST] What motivates employees?
     
    Dear Colleagues, 
    In teaching about expectancy theory and in particular, valence, I like to have my MBA students write down what they think a "35 year old, male, white collar worker, married with no kids" would rank in terms of various job factors (e.g., wages, promotion/growth, appreciation for work done, doing interesting work, job security, etc.) I saw a paper by Kovach (1987) on this topic, and Wiley (1995) seemed to update it with another round of surveys completed by employees. 
     
    My question to the listserv is whether there have been any further updates to this survey since the mid-90's? Any surveys in the mid 2000's or post-recession?  Even better, I always find it interesting when they compare the supervisor responses of "this is what I think my employees would rank" to what the employees themselves actually rank, and then revealing the discrepancies. 
     
    Any direction to this line of research and designing incentives with employee's relative valence in mind would be much appreciated. Thanks!
     
    -Alex
     
    Kovach, K. A. (1987). What motivates employees? Workers and supervisors give different answers. Business Horizons, 30(5), 58-65.


    Wiley, C. (1997). What motivates employees according to over 40 years of motivation surveys. International Journal of Manpower, 18(3), 263-280.



    Alex L. Rubenstein, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Management

    Fogelman College of Business & Economics
    The University of Memphis 
    323 FCB Building 
    Memphis, TN     38152-3120

    901.678.2910 | memphis.edu/management
    rbnstein@memphis.edu



  • 8.  What motivates employees?

    Posted 11-17-2016 12:02

    Dear Alex,

    When I teach motivation to undergraduate OB students, I often use an exercise that's described in the attached JME article. The exercise attempts to show students the danger of believing that what they think motivates their behavior will also motivate the behavior of others (a manifestation of the false consensus bias).

     

    Perhaps it might give you a few ideas that you could use in your class.
    Best wishes!

    Marc

     

    Marc H. Anderson

    Dean's Fellow in Management

    Associate Professor

    Department of Management

    College of Business

    Iowa State University

    2350 Gerdin Business Building

    Ames, IA 50011-1350

    Ph: 515-520-2217

    Fax: 515-294-7112

    email: mha@iastate.edu

     

     

    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG] On Behalf Of Noethen , Daniela
    Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016 4:51 AM
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG
    Subject: Re: [OB-LIST] What motivates employees?

     

    Dear Alex,

     

    I know this is not a direct response to your question, but maybe something to think about and broaden the content: Why not mix up the demographics in your example?

    I think especially MBAs need to wrap their mind around the fact that it will not only be „people like them" working for them, that there is a lot more diversity and also diversity in motivations (across and within different demographic groups). Probably you do this already (and probably there is not as much research findings to relate to for this), but I think it would be a great exercise to have different student groups think about the most motivating job factors for different demographics (different ages, different genders, different personal situations, maybe throw some race in there). This might lead to a richer and more realistic discussion.

     

    Best,

    Daniela

     

     

    Daniela Noethen, PhD
    Assistant Professor in the Department of People Management

    and Organisation
    Tel. +34 932 806 162 (ext 2609)



    Av. Torreblanca, 59
    E-08172 Sant Cugat
    www.esade.edu

     

     

     

    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG] On Behalf Of Alex Rubenstein
    Sent: miércoles, 16 de noviembre de 2016 5:18
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG
    Subject: [OB-LIST] What motivates employees?

     

    Dear Colleagues, 

    In teaching about expectancy theory and in particular, valence, I like to have my MBA students write down what they think a "35 year old, male, white collar worker, married with no kids" would rank in terms of various job factors (e.g., wages, promotion/growth, appreciation for work done, doing interesting work, job security, etc.) I saw a paper by Kovach (1987) on this topic, and Wiley (1995) seemed to update it with another round of surveys completed by employees. 

     

    My question to the listserv is whether there have been any further updates to this survey since the mid-90's? Any surveys in the mid 2000's or post-recession?  Even better, I always find it interesting when they compare the supervisor responses of "this is what I think my employees would rank" to what the employees themselves actually rank, and then revealing the discrepancies. 

     

    Any direction to this line of research and designing incentives with employee's relative valence in mind would be much appreciated. Thanks!

     

    -Alex

     

    Kovach, K. A. (1987). What motivates employees? Workers and supervisors give different answers. Business Horizons, 30(5), 58-65.

     

    Wiley, C. (1997). What motivates employees according to over 40 years of motivation surveys. International Journal of Manpower, 18(3), 263-280.

     

    Alex L. Rubenstein, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Management

    Fogelman College of Business & Economics
    The University of Memphis 
    323 FCB Building 
    Memphis, TN     38152-3120

    901.678.2910 | memphis.edu/management
    rbnstein@memphis.edu

     

     

     



  • 9.  What motivates employees?

    Posted 11-17-2016 15:04
    Alex,

    Here is an article I ran across today. You might try running the model using recent data. The Data was pulled from GSS General Social Survey | NORC





    On Thursday, November 17, 2016 12:31 PM, "Anderson, Marc [MGMT]" <mha@IASTATE.EDU> wrote:


    Dear Alex,
    When I teach motivation to undergraduate OB students, I often use an exercise that's described in the attached JME article. The exercise attempts to show students the danger of believing that what they think motivates their behavior will also motivate the behavior of others (a manifestation of the false consensus bias).
     
    Perhaps it might give you a few ideas that you could use in your class.
    Best wishes!
    Marc
     
    Marc H. Anderson
    Dean's Fellow in Management
    Associate Professor
    Department of Management
    College of Business
    Iowa State University
    2350 Gerdin Business Building
    Ames, IA 50011-1350
    Ph: 515-520-2217
    Fax: 515-294-7112
     
     
    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG] On Behalf Of Noethen , Daniela
    Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016 4:51 AM
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG
    Subject: Re: [OB-LIST] What motivates employees?
     
    Dear Alex,
     
    I know this is not a direct response to your question, but maybe something to think about and broaden the content: Why not mix up the demographics in your example?
    I think especially MBAs need to wrap their mind around the fact that it will not only be „people like them" working for them, that there is a lot more diversity and also diversity in motivations (across and within different demographic groups). Probably you do this already (and probably there is not as much research findings to relate to for this), but I think it would be a great exercise to have different student groups think about the most motivating job factors for different demographics (different ages, different genders, different personal situations, maybe throw some race in there). This might lead to a richer and more realistic discussion.
     
    Best,
    Daniela
     
     
    Daniela Noethen, PhD
    Assistant Professor in the Department of People Management
    and Organisation
    Tel. +34 932 806 162 (ext 2609)



    Av. Torreblanca, 59
    E-08172 Sant Cugat
    www.esade.edu
     
     
     
    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG] On Behalf Of Alex Rubenstein
    Sent: miércoles, 16 de noviembre de 2016 5:18
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG
    Subject: [OB-LIST] What motivates employees?
     
    Dear Colleagues, 
    In teaching about expectancy theory and in particular, valence, I like to have my MBA students write down what they think a "35 year old, male, white collar worker, married with no kids" would rank in terms of various job factors (e.g., wages, promotion/growth, appreciation for work done, doing interesting work, job security, etc.) I saw a paper by Kovach (1987) on this topic, and Wiley (1995) seemed to update it with another round of surveys completed by employees. 
     
    My question to the listserv is whether there have been any further updates to this survey since the mid-90's? Any surveys in the mid 2000's or post-recession?  Even better, I always find it interesting when they compare the supervisor responses of "this is what I think my employees would rank" to what the employees themselves actually rank, and then revealing the discrepancies. 
     
    Any direction to this line of research and designing incentives with employee's relative valence in mind would be much appreciated. Thanks!
     
    -Alex
     
    Kovach, K. A. (1987). What motivates employees? Workers and supervisors give different answers. Business Horizons, 30(5), 58-65.
     
    Wiley, C. (1997). What motivates employees according to over 40 years of motivation surveys. International Journal of Manpower, 18(3), 263-280.
     
    Alex L. Rubenstein, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Management
    Fogelman College of Business & Economics
    The University of Memphis 
    323 FCB Building 
    Memphis, TN     38152-3120

    901.678.2910 | memphis.edu/management
    rbnstein@memphis.edu
     
     
     




  • 10.  What motivates employees?

    Posted 11-18-2016 03:38
    Hi Alex,
    It will also be a good ide to refer the works of Daniel Pink. Pl find find the link given below.

    Swarup
    Prof.Swarup K Mohanty,PhD
    Sona School of Management, India


    Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad

    On Wednesday, November 16, 2016, 10:11 AM, Alex Rubenstein <rbnstein@MEMPHIS.EDU> wrote:

    Dear Colleagues, 
    In teaching about expectancy theory and in particular, valence, I like to have my MBA students write down what they think a "35 year old, male, white collar worker, married with no kids" would rank in terms of various job factors (e.g., wages, promotion/growth, appreciation for work done, doing interesting work, job security, etc.) I saw a paper by Kovach (1987) on this topic, and Wiley (1995) seemed to update it with another round of surveys completed by employees. 

    My question to the listserv is whether there have been any further updates to this survey since the mid-90's? Any surveys in the mid 2000's or post-recession?  Even better, I always find it interesting when they compare the supervisor responses of "this is what I think my employees would rank" to what the employees themselves actually rank, and then revealing the discrepancies. 

    Any direction to this line of research and designing incentives with employee's relative valence in mind would be much appreciated. Thanks!

    -Alex

    Kovach, K. A. (1987). What motivates employees? Workers and supervisors give different answers. Business Horizons, 30(5), 58-65.

    Wiley, C. (1997). What motivates employees according to over 40 years of motivation surveys. International Journal of Manpower, 18(3), 263-280.



    Alex L. Rubenstein, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Management
    Fogelman College of Business & Economics
    The University of Memphis 
    323 FCB Building 
    Memphis, TN 38152-3120

    901.678.2910 | memphis.edu/management
    rbnstein@memphis.edu





  • 11.  What motivates employees?

    Posted 11-18-2016 10:00

    Dear Alex,

     

    A lot of useful replies have passed already, and perhaps I can add something to the discussion as well. In reply to the previous mail about Dan Pink's famous Ted talk, please also take into consideration a recent provocation that appeared in Human Resource Management Journal (see attachment). For those interested, I recently made a knowledge clip for my students that captures the basics of extrinsic and intrinsic motivators at work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvjvBqT-8MY&t=1s.

     

    All the best,

    Jos

     

    Jos Akkermans PhD, Assistant Professor of HRM and Organizational Behavior      

    Department of Management and Organization | Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

    VU Amsterdam| Main Building | De Boelelaan 1105 | 1081 HV Amsterdam | 4th Floor A-Wing

    T +31 (0)20 598 22 56 | E j.akkermans@vu.nl | I www.feweb.vu.nl

     

     

    Associate Editor Career Development International

     

    Van: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG] Namens swarup mohanty
    Verzonden: vrijdag 18 november 2016 9:38
    Aan: OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG
    Onderwerp: Re: [OB-LIST] What motivates employees?

     

    Hi Alex,

    It will also be a good ide to refer the works of Daniel Pink. Pl find find the link given below.

     

    Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us - Wikipedia 

     

     

    Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us - Wikipedia

     

    Bests

    Swarup

    Prof.Swarup K Mohanty,PhD

    Sona School of Management, India


    Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad

    On Wednesday, November 16, 2016, 10:11 AM, Alex Rubenstein <rbnstein@MEMPHIS.EDU> wrote:

    Dear Colleagues, 

    In teaching about expectancy theory and in particular, valence, I like to have my MBA students write down what they think a "35 year old, male, white collar worker, married with no kids" would rank in terms of various job factors (e.g., wages, promotion/growth, appreciation for work done, doing interesting work, job security, etc.) I saw a paper by Kovach (1987) on this topic, and Wiley (1995) seemed to update it with another round of surveys completed by employees. 

     

    My question to the listserv is whether there have been any further updates to this survey since the mid-90's? Any surveys in the mid 2000's or post-recession?  Even better, I always find it interesting when they compare the supervisor responses of "this is what I think my employees would rank" to what the employees themselves actually rank, and then revealing the discrepancies. 

     

    Any direction to this line of research and designing incentives with employee's relative valence in mind would be much appreciated. Thanks!

     

    -Alex

     

    Kovach, K. A. (1987). What motivates employees? Workers and supervisors give different answers. Business Horizons, 30(5), 58-65.



    Wiley, C. (1997). What motivates employees according to over 40 years of motivation surveys. International Journal of Manpower, 18(3), 263-280.



    Alex L. Rubenstein, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Management

    Fogelman College of Business & Economics
    The University of Memphis 
    323 FCB Building 
    Memphis, TN 38152-3120

    901.678.2910 | memphis.edu/management
    rbnstein@memphis.edu

     

     

     



  • 12.  What motivates employees?

    Posted 11-18-2016 10:15

    Se also the attached article,

     

    Bard

     

    Bård Kuvaas, Ph.D. and Professor

    BI Norwegian Business School

    Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour

    Visiting address: Nydalsveien 37, 0484 Oslo
    Mailing address: NO-0442 Oslo
    Direct: +4746410731 - Switchboard: +4746410000

    Personal webpage: https://goo.gl/FlZAtV

    Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bard_Kuvaas

    Twitter: @BKuvaas

     

    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG] On Behalf Of Akkermans, T.J.
    Sent: 18. november 2016 16:00
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG
    Subject: Re: [OB-LIST] What motivates employees?

     

    Dear Alex,

     

    A lot of useful replies have passed already, and perhaps I can add something to the discussion as well. In reply to the previous mail about Dan Pink's famous Ted talk, please also take into consideration a recent provocation that appeared in Human Resource Management Journal (see attachment). For those interested, I recently made a knowledge clip for my students that captures the basics of extrinsic and intrinsic motivators at work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvjvBqT-8MY&t=1s.

     

    All the best,

    Jos

     

    Jos Akkermans PhD, Assistant Professor of HRM and Organizational Behavior      

    Department of Management and Organization | Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

    VU Amsterdam| Main Building | De Boelelaan 1105 | 1081 HV Amsterdam | 4th Floor A-Wing

    T +31 (0)20 598 22 56 | E j.akkermans@vu.nl | I www.feweb.vu.nl

     

     

    Associate Editor Career Development International

     

    Van: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG] Namens swarup mohanty
    Verzonden: vrijdag 18 november 2016 9:38
    Aan: OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG
    Onderwerp: Re: [OB-LIST] What motivates employees?

     

    Hi Alex,

    It will also be a good ide to refer the works of Daniel Pink. Pl find find the link given below.

     

    Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us - Wikipedia 

     

     

    Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us - Wikipedia

     

    Bests

    Swarup

    Prof.Swarup K Mohanty,PhD

    Sona School of Management, India


    Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad

    On Wednesday, November 16, 2016, 10:11 AM, Alex Rubenstein <rbnstein@MEMPHIS.EDU> wrote:

    Dear Colleagues, 

    In teaching about expectancy theory and in particular, valence, I like to have my MBA students write down what they think a "35 year old, male, white collar worker, married with no kids" would rank in terms of various job factors (e.g., wages, promotion/growth, appreciation for work done, doing interesting work, job security, etc.) I saw a paper by Kovach (1987) on this topic, and Wiley (1995) seemed to update it with another round of surveys completed by employees. 

     

    My question to the listserv is whether there have been any further updates to this survey since the mid-90's? Any surveys in the mid 2000's or post-recession?  Even better, I always find it interesting when they compare the supervisor responses of "this is what I think my employees would rank" to what the employees themselves actually rank, and then revealing the discrepancies. 

     

    Any direction to this line of research and designing incentives with employee's relative valence in mind would be much appreciated. Thanks!

     

    -Alex

     

    Kovach, K. A. (1987). What motivates employees? Workers and supervisors give different answers. Business Horizons, 30(5), 58-65.

     

    Wiley, C. (1997). What motivates employees according to over 40 years of motivation surveys. International Journal of Manpower, 18(3), 263-280.

     

    Alex L. Rubenstein, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Management

    Fogelman College of Business & Economics
    The University of Memphis 
    323 FCB Building 
    Memphis, TN 38152-3120

    901.678.2910 | memphis.edu/management
    rbnstein@memphis.edu

     

     

     



  • 13.  What motivates employees?

    Posted 11-22-2016 12:49

    Hi all,

     

    Dan Pink's work is basically an inaccurate knock-off of Ed Deci's (and Rich Ryan's, et al.) extensive research on Self-Determination Theory (http://selfdeterminationtheory.org/ -- plenty of papers here). Notably, Ed Deci actually studied under Victor Vroom and there's a pretty clear relationship between VIE and SDT. When I teach motivation I usually integrate SDT and Maslow's Hierarchy (use the 1971 version that includes self-transcendence). You may also want to look at Gardner, Csíkszentmihályi, and Damon's conception of "good work."

     

    Best,

     

    Orin

     

    Orin C. Davis, Ph.D.

    Quality of Life Laboratory

    http://www.qllab.org

     

    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG] On Behalf Of Akkermans, T.J.
    Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 10:00 AM
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG
    Subject: Re: [OB-LIST] What motivates employees?

     

    Dear Alex,

     

    A lot of useful replies have passed already, and perhaps I can add something to the discussion as well. In reply to the previous mail about Dan Pink's famous Ted talk, please also take into consideration a recent provocation that appeared in Human Resource Management Journal (see attachment). For those interested, I recently made a knowledge clip for my students that captures the basics of extrinsic and intrinsic motivators at work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvjvBqT-8MY&t=1s.

     

    All the best,

    Jos

     

    Jos Akkermans PhD, Assistant Professor of HRM and Organizational Behavior      

    Department of Management and Organization | Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

    VU Amsterdam| Main Building | De Boelelaan 1105 | 1081 HV Amsterdam | 4th Floor A-Wing

    T +31 (0)20 598 22 56 | E j.akkermans@vu.nl | I www.feweb.vu.nl

     

     

    Associate Editor Career Development International

     

    Van: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG] Namens swarup mohanty
    Verzonden: vrijdag 18 november 2016 9:38
    Aan: OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG
    Onderwerp: Re: [OB-LIST] What motivates employees?

     

    Hi Alex,

    It will also be a good ide to refer the works of Daniel Pink. Pl find find the link given below.

     

    Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us - Wikipedia 

     

     


    Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us - Wikipedia

     

    Bests

    Swarup

    Prof.Swarup K Mohanty,PhD

    Sona School of Management, India


    Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad

    On Wednesday, November 16, 2016, 10:11 AM, Alex Rubenstein <rbnstein@MEMPHIS.EDU> wrote:

    Dear Colleagues, 

    In teaching about expectancy theory and in particular, valence, I like to have my MBA students write down what they think a "35 year old, male, white collar worker, married with no kids" would rank in terms of various job factors (e.g., wages, promotion/growth, appreciation for work done, doing interesting work, job security, etc.) I saw a paper by Kovach (1987) on this topic, and Wiley (1995) seemed to update it with another round of surveys completed by employees. 

     

    My question to the listserv is whether there have been any further updates to this survey since the mid-90's? Any surveys in the mid 2000's or post-recession?  Even better, I always find it interesting when they compare the supervisor responses of "this is what I think my employees would rank" to what the employees themselves actually rank, and then revealing the discrepancies. 

     

    Any direction to this line of research and designing incentives with employee's relative valence in mind would be much appreciated. Thanks!

     

    -Alex

     

    Kovach, K. A. (1987). What motivates employees? Workers and supervisors give different answers. Business Horizons, 30(5), 58-65.

     

    Wiley, C. (1997). What motivates employees according to over 40 years of motivation surveys. International Journal of Manpower, 18(3), 263-280.

     

    Alex L. Rubenstein, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Management

    Fogelman College of Business & Economics
    The University of Memphis 
    323 FCB Building 
    Memphis, TN 38152-3120

    901.678.2910 | memphis.edu/management
    rbnstein@memphis.edu

     

     

     



  • 14.  What motivates employees?

    Posted 12-10-2016 08:58
    Hi Alex, 

    As an update on the note on SDT, you might find the paper in attach interesting on the three basic needs. 

    To give students an overview of what could motivate employees, I also recommend the work of Diefendorff and Chandler (also in attach).

    Good luck with the teaching! 
    Anja  

    On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 6:49 PM, Orin Davis <davisoc@gmail.com> wrote:

    Hi all,

     

    Dan Pink's work is basically an inaccurate knock-off of Ed Deci's (and Rich Ryan's, et al.) extensive research on Self-Determination Theory (http://selfdeterminationtheory.org/ -- plenty of papers here). Notably, Ed Deci actually studied under Victor Vroom and there's a pretty clear relationship between VIE and SDT. When I teach motivation I usually integrate SDT and Maslow's Hierarchy (use the 1971 version that includes self-transcendence). You may also want to look at Gardner, Csíkszentmihályi, and Damon's conception of "good work."

     

    Best,

     

    Orin

     

    Orin C. Davis, Ph.D.

    Quality of Life Laboratory

    http://www.qllab.org

     

    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG] On Behalf Of Akkermans, T.J.
    Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 10:00 AM
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG
    Subject: Re: [OB-LIST] What motivates employees?

     

    Dear Alex,

     

    A lot of useful replies have passed already, and perhaps I can add something to the discussion as well. In reply to the previous mail about Dan Pink's famous Ted talk, please also take into consideration a recent provocation that appeared in Human Resource Management Journal (see attachment). For those interested, I recently made a knowledge clip for my students that captures the basics of extrinsic and intrinsic motivators at work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvjvBqT-8MY&t=1s.

     

    All the best,

    Jos

     

    Jos Akkermans PhD, Assistant Professor of HRM and Organizational Behavior      

    Department of Management and Organization | Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

    VU Amsterdam| Main Building | De Boelelaan 1105 | 1081 HV Amsterdam | 4th Floor A-Wing

    T +31 (0)20 598 22 56 | E j.akkermans@vu.nl | I www.feweb.vu.nl

     

     

    Associate Editor Career Development International

     

    Van: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG] Namens swarup mohanty
    Verzonden: vrijdag 18 november 2016 9:38
    Aan: OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG
    Onderwerp: Re: [OB-LIST] What motivates employees?

     

    Hi Alex,

    It will also be a good ide to refer the works of Daniel Pink. Pl find find the link given below.

     

    Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us - Wikipedia 

     

     


    Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us - Wikipedia

     

    Bests

    Swarup

    Prof.Swarup K Mohanty,PhD

    Sona School of Management, India


    Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad

    On Wednesday, November 16, 2016, 10:11 AM, Alex Rubenstein <rbnstein@MEMPHIS.EDU> wrote:

    Dear Colleagues, 

    In teaching about expectancy theory and in particular, valence, I like to have my MBA students write down what they think a "35 year old, male, white collar worker, married with no kids" would rank in terms of various job factors (e.g., wages, promotion/growth, appreciation for work done, doing interesting work, job security, etc.) I saw a paper by Kovach (1987) on this topic, and Wiley (1995) seemed to update it with another round of surveys completed by employees. 

     

    My question to the listserv is whether there have been any further updates to this survey since the mid-90's? Any surveys in the mid 2000's or post-recession?  Even better, I always find it interesting when they compare the supervisor responses of "this is what I think my employees would rank" to what the employees themselves actually rank, and then revealing the discrepancies. 

     

    Any direction to this line of research and designing incentives with employee's relative valence in mind would be much appreciated. Thanks!

     

    -Alex

     

    Kovach, K. A. (1987). What motivates employees? Workers and supervisors give different answers. Business Horizons, 30(5), 58-65.

     

    Wiley, C. (1997). What motivates employees according to over 40 years of motivation surveys. International Journal of Manpower, 18(3), 263-280.

     

    Alex L. Rubenstein, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Management

    Fogelman College of Business & Economics
    The University of Memphis 
    323 FCB Building 
    Memphis, TN 38152-3120

    901.678.2910 | memphis.edu/management
    rbnstein@memphis.edu

     

     

     




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  • 15.  What motivates employees?

    Posted 11-22-2016 06:34

    Hi Alex,

    I touch a bit on a multilevel addition to expectancy theory and add "followership investment" in a recent ARM publication building up to and just following proposition 1. It's perhaps a bit more abstract than your looking for, but maybe it will prove to be helpful.

    Spisak, B. R., O'Brien, M. J., Nicholson, N., & van Vugt, M. (2015). Niche construction and the evolution of leadership. Academy of Management Review, 40(2), 291-306.


    https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brian_Spisak/publication/275227089_Niche_Construction_and_the_Evolution_of_Leadership/links/554874220cf2b0cf7acebecc.pdf

    Also, regarding valence, I touch on this with a colleague in an agent-based model looking at politician favorability ratings and voting behavior (so political motivation rather than employee motivation, but again perhaps helpful).

    Sharpanskykh, A.,& Spisak, B. R. (2011) An agent-based evolutionary model of leadership.In J. Zhan, et al. (Eds.), Proceeding of the 2011 IEEE international conference on privacy, security, risk, and trust, and IEEE international conference on social computing (pp. 848-855). Boston: IEEE Computer Society Press


    https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/316b/814d8702bef6d19a1a63ae59d347aee26d35.pdf


    All the best and good luck,


    Brian 


    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG] on behalf of Alex Rubenstein [rbnstein@MEMPHIS.EDU]
    Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 5:18 AM
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG
    Subject: [OB-LIST] What motivates employees?

    Dear Colleagues, 
    In teaching about expectancy theory and in particular, valence, I like to have my MBA students write down what they think a "35 year old, male, white collar worker, married with no kids" would rank in terms of various job factors (e.g., wages, promotion/growth, appreciation for work done, doing interesting work, job security, etc.) I saw a paper by Kovach (1987) on this topic, and Wiley (1995) seemed to update it with another round of surveys completed by employees. 

    My question to the listserv is whether there have been any further updates to this survey since the mid-90's? Any surveys in the mid 2000's or post-recession?  Even better, I always find it interesting when they compare the supervisor responses of "this is what I think my employees would rank" to what the employees themselves actually rank, and then revealing the discrepancies. 

    Any direction to this line of research and designing incentives with employee's relative valence in mind would be much appreciated. Thanks!

    -Alex

    Kovach, K. A. (1987). What motivates employees? Workers and supervisors give different answers. Business Horizons, 30(5), 58-65.

    Wiley, C. (1997). What motivates employees according to over 40 years of motivation surveys. International Journal of Manpower, 18(3), 263-280.



    Alex L. Rubenstein, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Management
    Fogelman College of Business & Economics
    The University of Memphis 
    323 FCB Building 
    Memphis, TN 38152-3120

    901.678.2910 | memphis.edu/management
    rbnstein@memphis.edu





  • 16.  What motivates employees?

    Posted 11-22-2016 11:25

    Hi Alex,

     

    In teaching my students about what employees value at work, I use the following exercise, which is in my Effective Leadership textbook (Humphrey, Ronald H. (2013). Effective Leadership: Theories, Cases, and Applications. SAGE Publications. Los Angeles. ISBN: 978-1-4129-6355-8.):

     

    Exercises

    1. Your True Heart's Desires

    On a sheet of paper, draw a line down the middle. On one side, list all the things you want to avoid in your career and your life. On the other side, list the things that you love and want to have in your career and life. What sort of goals can you set for yourself to help you achieve the things you love and avoid the things you hate? (Instructor: Let the class know at the begin­ning of the exercise if students will be asked to share their lists in small groups or with the class as a whole. Usually a few students will volunteer to share their lists even if the majority get to keep their list confidential.)

     

    I usually have student volunteers share their responses on the whiteboard or project their answers using my projection system, and then discuss why they list so many things other than  money and job security., benefits, etc. Sometimes I have them assign points to the things they value (with a total of 100 points). This usually gets a good discussion. Pertinent to your discussion  about perceptions, students are sometimes surprised about what others value. There is usually quite a range. This always gets a good discussion. This works well with the short case in the same chapter (14) called Barbara Corcoran Learns Her Heart's True Desires.

     

    I hope this helps,

     

    Ron

     

    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG] On Behalf Of Spisak, B.R.
    Sent: 22 November 2016 11:34
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG
    Subject: Re: [OB-LIST] What motivates employees?

     

    Hi Alex,

    I touch a bit on a multilevel addition to expectancy theory and add "followership investment" in a recent ARM publication building up to and just following proposition 1. It's perhaps a bit more abstract than your looking for, but maybe it will prove to be helpful.

    Spisak, B. R., O'Brien, M. J., Nicholson, N., & van Vugt, M. (2015). Niche construction and the evolution of leadership. Academy of Management Review, 40(2), 291-306.


    https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brian_Spisak/publication/275227089_Niche_Construction_and_the_Evolution_of_Leadership/links/554874220cf2b0cf7acebecc.pdf

    Also, regarding valence, I touch on this with a colleague in an agent-based model looking at politician favorability ratings and voting behavior (so political motivation rather than employee motivation, but again perhaps helpful).

    Sharpanskykh, A.,& Spisak, B. R. (2011) An agent-based evolutionary model of leadership.In J. Zhan, et al. (Eds.), Proceeding of the 2011 IEEE international conference on privacy, security, risk, and trust, and IEEE international conference on social computing (pp. 848-855). Boston: IEEE Computer Society Press


    https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/316b/814d8702bef6d19a1a63ae59d347aee26d35.pdf

     

    All the best and good luck,

     

    Brian 

     

    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG] on behalf of Alex Rubenstein [rbnstein@MEMPHIS.EDU]
    Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 5:18 AM
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG
    Subject: [OB-LIST] What motivates employees?

    Dear Colleagues, 

    In teaching about expectancy theory and in particular, valence, I like to have my MBA students write down what they think a "35 year old, male, white collar worker, married with no kids" would rank in terms of various job factors (e.g., wages, promotion/growth, appreciation for work done, doing interesting work, job security, etc.) I saw a paper by Kovach (1987) on this topic, and Wiley (1995) seemed to update it with another round of surveys completed by employees. 

     

    My question to the listserv is whether there have been any further updates to this survey since the mid-90's? Any surveys in the mid 2000's or post-recession?  Even better, I always find it interesting when they compare the supervisor responses of "this is what I think my employees would rank" to what the employees themselves actually rank, and then revealing the discrepancies. 

     

    Any direction to this line of research and designing incentives with employee's relative valence in mind would be much appreciated. Thanks!

     

    -Alex

     

    Kovach, K. A. (1987). What motivates employees? Workers and supervisors give different answers. Business Horizons, 30(5), 58-65.



    Wiley, C. (1997). What motivates employees according to over 40 years of motivation surveys. International Journal of Manpower, 18(3), 263-280.



    Alex L. Rubenstein, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Management

    Fogelman College of Business & Economics
    The University of Memphis 
    323 FCB Building 
    Memphis, TN 38152-3120

    901.678.2910 | memphis.edu/management
    rbnstein@memphis.edu