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Exploring the relationships between personality and sources of motivation
Get PDFOne of the current business problems is the lack of motivation at work. It influences company's performance and job satisfaction of employees. Understanding the relationship between personality traits and motivation is essential for managers to develop an appropriate way of encouraging workers. Based on the theoretical background of the Big Five Personality Model and Motivation Sources Inventory, the relationships between personality dimensions and sources of motivation were examined using correlation analysis. The data was collected within the “Rohlik.cz” company based in Prague, Czech Republic. Extraversion was found to be the strongest positive predictor of Intrinsic Process Motivation. Additionally, Extraversion was positively associated with Instrumental, External Self-Concept, and Goal-Internalization sources of motivation. Conscientiousness and Openness to Experience were linked to Intrinsic Motivation. Neuroticism was negatively related to Intrinsic Motivation and Internal Self-Concept. Agreeableness was found to have no relationships with motivation sources.Jednym z obecnych problemów biznesowych jest brak motywacji do pracy. To z kolei wpływa na wyniki firmy i zadowolenie pracowników. Zrozumienie związku między cechami osobowymi a motywacją ma kluczowe znaczenie dla menedżerów w opracowaniu odpowiedniego sposobu motywowania pracowników. Opierając się na teoretycznym modelu osobowości Wielka Piątka i zintegrowanym modelu motywacji "Motivation Sources Inventory", analizowano relacje między wymiarami osobowości a źródłami motywacji za pomocą analizy korelacji. Dane zebrano w firmie "Rohlik.cz" Praga, Czechy. Stwierdzono, że ekstrawersja jest najsilniejszym pozytywnym czynnikiem wewnętrznej motywacji. Ponadto ekstrawersja jest pozytywnie skorelowana z następującymi źródłami motywacji: motywacją instrumentalną, zewnętrzną koncepcją samooceny i internalizacją celów. Sumienność i otwartość na doświadczenie skorelowane są z motywacją procesu wewnętrznego. Neurotyczność jest negatywnie skorelowana z instrumentalną motywacją i wewnętrzną koncepcją samooceny. Stwierdzono, że ugodowość nie ma związków ze źródłami motywacji
Business and non-profit organizations facing increased competition and growing customers' demands
Get PDFDzisiaj każdy modli się oddzielnie czyli modlitwy o jedność Chrześcijan
Get PDFPolska Rada Ekumeniczna jest organizacją ekumeniczną zrzeszającą polskie Kościoły protestanckie, starokatolickie i prawosławne. Działa od 1946 roku i opowiada się za wolnością religijną. Każdego roku w styczniu Kościoły zrzeszone w Polskiej Radzie Ekumenicznej i od 1967 roku Kościół rzymskokatolicki modlą się o jedność chrześcijan. Jaki powinien być cel Tygodnia Modlitw o Jedność Chrześcijan? Autor artykułu szuka odpowiedzi czy przezwyciężone zostały różnice, które doprowadziły do podziałów w chrześcijaństwie
Bibliografia opublikowanego dorobku pracowników Wyższej Szkoły Biznesu – National-Louis University w Nowym Sączu w latach 2014 – 2016
No full textBibliografia stanowi kontynuację dokumentowania dorobku publikacyjnego i jest wykazem retrospektywnym stanowiącym spis publikacji pracowników Wyższej Szkoły Biznesu - National-Louis University w Nowym Sączu wydanym przez Bibliotekę WSB-NLU w 2017 r. jako dokument elektroniczny. W niniejszym tomie obejmującym lata 2014-2016 uwzględniono autorskie i współautorskie wydawnictwa zwarte, rozdziały, opracowania, artykuły w czasopismach, referaty oraz opublikowane materiały z konferencji i sympozjów. Uwzględniono publikacje na nośnikach elektronicznych. W bibliografii zamieszczono publikacje wydane przez autorów w okresie zatrudnienia w WSB-NLU. Bibliografia ma układ autorsko-alfabetyczny, w obrębie hasła autorskiego tytuły publikacji ułożono chronologicznie, a w obrębie roku zastosowano podział publikacji na wydawnictwa zwarte, ciągłe i elektroniczne. Uzupełnieniem bibliografii jest indeks autorski, wykaz tytułów czasopism i ich skrótów, wykaz instytucji wydawniczych i ich skrótów oraz wykaz ważniejszych skrótów zastosowanych w bibliografii.
Bibliografia zawiera 258 opisów publikacji autorstwa 30 pracowników WSB-NLU. Dziękujemy autorom za współpracę przy kompletowaniu materiałów do bibliografii.
Na końcu zamieszczono uzupełnienie do tomu pierwszego obejmujące kilka publikacji
i nazwisk autorów, które nie zostały uwzględnione w tomie pierwszym.This is the second volume of the publications by Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu - National-Louis University teaching staff. The volume includes 2014 to 2016 bibliography. The bibliography registers books, chapters in books, scientific editing, articles in periodicals, conferences and congress materials. It also includes descriptions of publications edited with participation of teaching staff of WSB-NLU, items published as electronic documents. Bibliographic descriptions have been organized in the alphabetical order just as authors' names, also, they are categorized by the publication type: books, periodicals, electronic documents. Authors index, lists of periodicals titles and publishers are supplements to this bibliography.
This bibliography lists 258 descriptions of publications by 30 WSB-NLU Faculty. Their cooperation in preparing materials for this bibliography is greatly appreciated.
It includes a few bibliography descriptions, which are missing in the first volume
The Size of Local Government Administration at a Municipal Level as a Determinant of Entrepreneurship
Get PDFThis article’s aim is to examine a dependency between local government administration at a municipal level and the level of local entrepreneurship. This paper attempts to answer the question of whether the size of the local government administration has features of stimulant or de-stimulant in the process of setting up a business. In other words, does the size of public administration at a local level (municipal level) have a positive or negative impact on creating new business entities? This is important due to at least a couple of reasons. First of all, the current research achievements are not extensive, when it comes to the publications that link entrepreneurship and the size of local government administration. Secondly, the problem of entrepreneurship determinants constitutes still topical and not fully investigated (or explained) aspects of local economy development. Thirdly and finally, the authors of this article have proposed and copyrighted an approach to the quantification of the size of local government administration, modifying commonly used measures of local public administration. Thus, this article fits not only into the explanation of the entrepreneurship phenomenon and its determinants, but also contributes to the development of knowledge about dependencies between the size of local self-government and the entrepreneurship level. It expands the knowledge resource on analyzed dependencies and re-orients current approaches to similar research
The KM Times They Are A-Changin’
Get PDFThis paper traces the changes in the development of the field of knowledge management (KM) over time, through a review of the representative literature and the author’s own research. The paper starts by going back to the origins of KM and reflects on three significant evolutionary stages termed fragmentation, integration and fusion. Following these reflections on the KM past, the paper speculates on the possible KM future. It identifies three emerging trends named extension, specialization and reconceptualization that point to several possible KM futures. The first two involve decentralisation and regeneration of prior KM interpretations, while the third trend signals a revolutionary next KM generation. Irrespective of the direction it may take, the evidence presented in this paper suggests that KM has a future, although it may not be without challenges
Mekhanizm gosudarstvennogo upravleniya ustojchivym razvitiem social'no-ekonomicheskoj sistemy Ukrainy
No full textV monografii issledovany problemy upravleniya ustojchivym razvitiem nacional'nyh social'no-ekonomicheskih sistem. Na osnove provedennyh issledovanij avtorom razrabotan mekhanizm gosudarstvennogo upravleniya ustojchivym razvitiem social'no-ekonomicheskoj sistemy Ukrainy, a takzhe obosnovany nauchno-metodologicheskie podhody i prakticheskie rekomendacii po ego realizacii.
Rekomenduetsya uchenym i specialistam, prepodavatelyam vysshih uchebnyh zavedenij, doktorantam, aspirantam i studentam magistratury, kotorye zanimayutsya voprosami povysheniya effektivnosti gosudarstvennogo upravleniya razvitiem nacional'nyh social'no-ekonomicheskih sistem.W monografii prowadzone badania problemów zarządzania rozwojem zrównoważonym krajowych systemów społeczno-gospodarczych. Na podstawie wyników badań opracowany mechanizm zarządzania zrównoważonym rozwojem systemu społeczno-gospodarczego Ukrainy, a także zostało uzasadnione naukowo-metodyczne podejście i praktyczne zalecenia dla jego realizacji.
Książka ta jest zalecana naukowcom i specjalistom, nauczycielom szkół wyższych, doktorantom oraz studentom, którzy są zaangażowani w poprawę mechanizmu zrównoważonego rozwoju krajowych systemów społeczno-gospodarczych
Conceptualizing innovation capabilities: A contingency perspective
Get PDFEmpirical research has confirmed that a positive relationship exists between the implementation of innovation activities and the future performance of organizations. Firms utilize resources and capabilities to develop innovations in the form of new products, services or processes. Some firms prove to be better at reproducing innovation success than others, and the capacity to do so is referred to as innovation capability. However, the term innovation capability is ambiguously treated in extant literature. There are several different definitions of the concept and the distinction between innovation capabilities and other types of capabilities, such as dynamic capabilities, is neither explicitly stated, nor is the relationship between the concept and other resource- and capability-based concepts within strategy theory established. Although innovation is increasingly identified as crucial for a firm’s sustainable competitiveness in contemporary volatile and complex markets, the strategy-innovation link is underdeveloped in extant research. To overcome this challenge this paper raises the following research question: What type of innovation capabilities are required to innovate successfully? Due to the status of the extant research, we chose a conceptual research design to answer our research question and the paper contributes with a conceptual framework to discuss what innovation capabilities firms need to reproduce innovation success. Based on careful examination of current literature on innovation capability specifically, and the strategy-innovation link in general, we suggest that innovation capability must be viewed along two dimensions – innovation novelty and market characteristics. This framework enables the identification of four different contexts for innovation capabilities in a two-by-two matrix. We discuss the types of innovation capabilities necessary within the four different contexts. This novel framework contributes to the understanding of the strategy-innovation link as well as clarifies the conceptual understanding of capabilities within the strategy literature and establishes the relationship between these structures and innovation management theory
Personnel Process in a Project – the Form and Implementation Practice
Get PDFThe literature focused on project-based management is frequently discussing
the problems of team management. The activities addressed to project team
members can be approached from the perspective process. Personnel process
should represent the set of interrelated, coordinated activities contributing to
the project goal implementation. The purpose of the article is to provide an
answer – based on literature studies and empirical research – to the questions
regarding the implementation methods of personnel process stages in a
project, the occurring shortcomings, the process integrity, and changes to be
made for its improvement
A conceptual framework to represent the theoretical domain of “innovation capability” in organizations
Get PDFThe term ‘innovation capability’ has been used recurrently in the innovation literature, but there is still considerable divergence about its meaning and implication to organizations. A consensus exists that, to innovate, organizations must possess innovation capability, and that the ownership of this feature is not a binary process, but rather an evolutionary level process. This evolutionary logic is analogous to the basic structure of organizational maturity models. However, the literature integrating innovation capability into a maturity perspective is still limited. Considering these premises, from a broad bibliographical research, this article presents a framework of reference to represent the entire theoretical domain of innovation capability. Its purpose is to classify the main types of models about this construct available in the reference literature. It is organized at increasing levels of complexity, so that each level creates the conceptual conditions for the construction of more comprehensive models. Similar to the main use cases for maturity models, there are three basic levels for the framework: descriptive; comparative; and, finally, prescriptive models of innovation capability. Considering this cumulative framework, the authors argue that, to be fully understood, innovation capability should be studied using the perspective of maturity models