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Hackman noted that teams are hindered by problems of co-ordination and motivation that chip away at the benefits of collaboration.

Now a third and far more significant motivation presents itself: meeting these goals may be necessary to prevent the collapse of our civilization.

What motivates employees to do their jobs well? Competition with coworkers, for some.

The principle is about understanding what is motivating to this group of players, which requires some understanding of psychology.

Some people, Werbach says, are motivated by competition.

Some employees found the board motivating.

Others are more motivated by collaboration and social experiences.

Motivated students.

Informing students about the brain as a learning machine is a good strategy to enhance their motivation for learning.

In particular, attributing poor performance to a lack of ability depresses motivation more than does the belief that lack of effort is to blame.

I first began to investigate the basis of human motivation—and how people persevere after setbacks—as a psychology graduate student at Yale University in the 1960s.

Despite being unaware that there were two types of instruction, teachers reported significant motivational changes in 27% of the children in the growth mind-set workshop as compared with only 9% of students in the control group.

Cracker Jacks has been gamifying its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-ofthe- century steel magnate Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of steel produced on the past shift on the factory floor, thus motivating the next shift of workers to beat the previous one.

A gamification strategy that is not sufficiently thought through or well tailored to its players may engage people for a little while, but it will not motivate people in the long term.

The reason it hasn't caught on yet, he tells me, is that the functionality of e-edition textbooks is incredibly limited, and some students just aren't motivated to learn new study behavior.

Textbook versions are constantly updated, motivating publishers by minimizing production costs (the big ones like McGraw-Hill are already on board).

But what often distinguishes those who land jobs from those who don't is their ability to stay motivated.

Being surrounded by white peers motivates a black student to work harder to succeed.

deprive colleges of the right to manage their facilitiesmake workers less motivated in performing dutiesrender a number of campus workers joblesslead to the privatization of campus facilitiesThe outsourcing plan is not yet finalized.

Research finds that if employees suffer from high stress, they will be less motivated, less productive and more likely to quit.

It will motivate all nations to reduce carbon emissions.

In a competitive work environment, employers are able to use technology to demand more from their employees rather than motivating workers with flexibility that benefits them.

We need to understand what motivates people, what it is that allows them to make change, says Professor Neil Adger, of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in Norwich.

To find effective solutions to climate change, it is necessary to understand what motivates people to make change.

Take your average trade union member, chances are they will be politically motivated and be used to collective action— much like Erica Gregory.

It motivates you more if you know that you've got to provide feedback to a group.

It can motivate average students.

On occasions it is the fear that certain disclosures may be unacceptable to family or friends that motivates an individual to seek professional help.

And yet, the same motivation that can push people to exert more effort in a constructive way could also motivate people to be more likely to engage in unethical behaviors," says Maurice Schweitzer, an associate professor at Penn's Wharton School.

A prime example Schweitzer and his colleagues cite is the 2004 collapse of energy-trading giant Enron, where managers used financial incentives to motivate salesmen to meet specific revenue goals

Goal-setting does help coordinate and motivate people.

According to the college, the plan is designed for high-ability, highly motivated student who wish to save money or to move along more rapidly toward advanced degrees.

Campuses willing to adopt convenient schedules along with more focused, less-expensive degrees may find that they have a competitive advantage in attracting bright, motivated students

Convenient academic schedules with more-focused, less-expensive degrees will be more attractive to bright, motivated students.

They are usually more motivated to compete with their peers.

The stars were people who knew how to get along, who knew how to motivate themselves, usually the kind of people you like to hang out with.

To motivate visitors to bring in more old shoes, Adidas Brazil promotes the program in stores by showing videos to educate customers, and it even offers a discount each time a customer brings in an old pair of shoes.

Additionally, group exercise creates a community feel and the shared common goal motivates participants to work hard.

Deliberate practice activities require effort, produce no immediate rewards, and are motivated by the goal of improving performance rather than the goal of enjoyment.

Researchers have identified several factors that motivate people to get involved.

They motivate workers, and they make an impression on people who visit and might be potential, or prospective, customers.

While some people are motivated by a need for success, others are motivated by a fear of failure.

You should reassess your goals, and motivate yourself to set a fresh goal.

What motivated him, we were to understand, was his zeal for “fundamental fairness”—protecting the taxpayer, controlling spending and ensuring that only the most deserving claimants received their benefits.

Asked whether any particular papers had impelled the change, McNutt said: “The creation of the ‘statistics board’ was motivated by concerns broadly with the application of statistics and data analysis in scientific research and is part of Science’s overall drive to increase reproducibility in the research we publish.

Not only are the tasks apparently infinite, the co-workers are much harder to motivate.