Search for dissertations about: "motivation at work"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 207 swedish dissertations containing the words motivation at work.

  2. 1. Why Work? : Comparative Studies on Welfare Regimes and Individuals' Work Orientations

    Author : Ingrid Esser; Joakim Palme; Stefan Svallfors; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; welfare state; production regime; work values; attitudes to work; employment commitment; retirement preferences; multi-level analysis; comparative; institutions; work motivation; Sociology; Sociologi;

    Abstract : The main purpose of this thesis is to examine how different welfare and production regimes may have structured individuals’ work orientations into cross-national patterns by the late 1990s and early 2000s. Three different aspects of work orientations are considered in the three studies. READ MORE

  4. 2. Feeling and Thinking at Work : Personal and Collective Work-Identity Predictions and Formations

    Author : Ola Nordhall; Igor Knez; Johan Willander; Per Lindberg; Fredrik Saboonchi; Kerstin Isaksson; Högskolan i Gävle; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; personal and collective work-identity; emotion; cognition; work motivation; organizational pay justice; general mental health; exhaustion; teachers’ psy-chosocial working conditions; work-identity formation; personlig och kollektiv arbetsidentitet; emotion; kognition; arbetsmotivation; organisatorisk lönerättvisa; allmän mental hälsa; utmattning; lärares psykosociala arbetsvillkor; arbetsrelaterad identitetsformation; Health-Promoting Work; Hälsofrämjande arbete;

    Abstract : The aim of the present thesis was to investigate emotional and cognitive personal and collective work-identity in predicting employees’ work-related motivation, organizational justice perceptions, general mental health and exhaustion; as well as if psychosocial working conditions might explain some of these relationships. Emotion and cognition in formation of personal and collective work-identity were also investigated. READ MORE

  5. 3. Motivation, students, and the classroom environment : exploring the role of Swedish students’ achievement goals in chemistry

    Author : Anders Hofverberg; Mikael T. Winberg; Ewa Bergqvist; Ilka Parchmann; Corwin Senko; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Motivation; achievement goals; chemistry; goal structures; epistemic beliefs; autonomous motivation; pedagogiskt arbete; educational work; education; pedagogik; kemididaktik; didactics of chemistry;

    Abstract : The overarching aim of this thesis is to deepen the knowledge about students’ achievement goals in chemistry and how they relate to students’ epistemic beliefs (beliefs about knowledge) and to their perceptions of classroom goal structures (instructional practices that emphasize certain achievement goals). Achievement goals are defined as the purpose behind students’ engagement in achievement behavior. READ MORE

  6. 4. Live long and prosper : Health-promoting conditions at work

    Author : Anna-Carin Fagerlind Ståhl; Kerstin Ekberg; Maria Gustavsson; Gun Johansson; Lotta Dellve; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to contribute with knowledge concerning health-promoting conditions at work, and to investigate how individual, workplace and organisational conditions are interrelated. In the thesis, work-related flow, i.e. an experience of motivation, absorption and work enjoyment, is used as a holistic notion of occupational health. READ MORE

  7. 5. Registered nurses' work motivation and intention to stay at the workplace

    Author : Carina Ahlstedt; Anna Nyberg; Linda Moberg; Åsa Engström; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; registered nurse; work motivation; illegitimate tasks; social support; work environment; Hälso- och sjukvårdsforskning; Health Care Research;

    Abstract : There is currently a shortage of registered nurses (RNs) and high turnover of RNs, both nationally and internationally. Work motivation is an important part of a healthy work environment and something we need to know more about from an RN perspective. READ MORE