Search for dissertations about: "intrinsic motivation"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 55 swedish dissertations containing the words intrinsic motivation.

2. 11. Science Centre Education : Motivation and Learning in Informal Education

   Author : Hannu Sakari Salmi; []
   Keywords : science centre education; formal Ä informal education; motivation; intrinsic - instrumental - situation motivation; learning strategies;

   Abstract : The purpose of this study was to investigate learning in a science exhibition in order to further develop the theory of science centre education as a form of informal education. In studying motivation the model of Engestr”m (1984) was used. This model separates intrinsic, instrumental and situation motivation. READ MORE

4. 12. The impact of motivation and person-job fit on employee turnover among Swedish real estate brokers: A mixed method approach

   Author : Martin Ahlenius; Björn Berggren; Jonas Kågström; Lars-Johan Åge; Samuel Azasu; KTH; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Real estate brokerage; person-job fit; motivation; employee turnover; occupational life cycle; Fastighetsmäklare; person-job fit; motivation; år i yrket; Företagsekonomi; Business Studies;

   Abstract : Residential real estate is a vital part of the economy, and homes are important for individuals for both financial and emotional reasons. Residential homes change owners for numerous reasons, and there is a need for these transactions to be secure and efficient from both the economic and individual perspective. READ MORE

5. 13. Motivations for human behaviour : Relating attribution and expectancy inferences to socioeconomic and religious orientations among Ewe Christians in Ghana

   Author : Dziedzorm R. Asafo; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; Motivation; Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations; Cognitive and Symbolic Religiosity; Rituals; Attribution; Expectancy; Dialogue; Inference; Altruism; Values; Relatedness; Motives; Emotions; Churches; Religious Behaviour; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; religionssociologi; religionssociologi;

   Abstract : Since Max Weber's controversial thesis about the source of Western capitalism, social scientists have become embroiled in, and preoccupied with the central question of the function of ideology in human behaviour. In the process, other questions relating to this issue and especially that of religion came to attract the attention of many researchers. READ MORE

6. 14. Belief & Desire : The Standard Model of Intentional Action — Critique and Defence

   Author : Björn Petersson; Praktisk filosofi; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ethics; Systematic philosophy; Michael Smith; David Hume; Donald Davidson; akrasia; 2nd order desires; reasons; understandings; intention; propositional content; tendency; desire; disposition; belief-desire model; motivation; aesthetics; metaphysics; epistemology; ideology; Praktisk filosofi; estetik; metafysik; kunskapsteori; ideologi;

   Abstract : The scheme of concepts we employ in daily life to explain intentional behaviour form a belief-desire model (BD model), in which motivating states are sorted into two suitably broad categories. The BD model embeds a philosophy of action, i.e. READ MORE

7. 15. Leadership and Innovation in R&D Teams

   Author : Leif Denti; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; LMX; Leadership; Innovation; Creativity; Personal Initiative; Creative self-efficacy; Intrinsic motivation; Mediator; Moderator; ;

   Abstract : This thesis focuses on the members of industrial research and development (R&D) teams and their leaders. The field of individual innovation is fragmented and lacks research that coherently integrates psychological factors that explain why antecedent variables affect individual innovation. READ MORE