Industrial Scientists and Engineers: Motivational Style Differences

Badawy, Michael K.

doi:10.2307/41164360

Cited by 17 publications

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“…The directing force for those who are motivated through the internal self‐concept is task feedback. The results are also reflective of Badawy's () work which identifies the researchers' freedom to work in their own way as an important motivator. The scientist's personal task attainment becomes a reference point for future task achievement and higher levels of competency (Leonard et al., ).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 61%

“…Badawy's () pseudo Herzbergian approach to understanding motivational style differences between industrial scientists and engineers examined the relative importance of motivation‐oriented and hygiene‐oriented work characteristics across the two groups. Differences were identified, with scientists typically being more motivated by factors such as the ‘opportunity to do meaningful scientific work’ and ‘freedom to work in one's own way’, and ‘recognition’.…”

Section: Motivation and The Research Scientistmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The work motivation of research scientists and its effect on research performance

Ryan

2014

R & D Management

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This research examines the work motivation profile of research scientists and the effect of work motivation on research performance. A sample of United Kingdom-based research scientists (N = 405) working in the chemical, biological and biomedical research domains took part in the study. Participants completed a survey based measure of motivational sources and self-report research performance evaluation. The motivational sources of internal self-concept motivation and instrumental motivation were found to be the strongest and weakest respectively for research scientists. External self-concept motivation was found to be significantly higher among younger scientists. No gender differences were found in the motivational profile of scientists. While controlling for the influences of age and gender, internal self-concept motivation was found to have a significant positive effect on research performance, and instrumental motivation was found to have a significant negative effect on research performance. Consistent with prior research, differences in research performance across age and gender were also identified. The implications of these findings for our understanding of the effective management of scientific research are discussed.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 61%

Section: Motivation and The Research Scientistmentioning

confidence: 99%

The work motivation of research scientists and its effect on research performance

Ryan

2014

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“…The cross case cost estimation issues (table 3) were related to existing theory in [15,23,37,38] and outside [39][40][41][42] the field of software engineering, and analyzed with the help of observation and direct participation views provided by the authors in order to explore them further.…”

Section: Relating Cross Case Results To Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Engineers are also known to be demotivated by uncertain work [41,42], and thus the uncertainty characteristic of the estimation work may act as a demotivator that lessens the quality of the estimation work. (Issues 3 and 8) …”

Section: Relating Cross Case Results To Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Any other cost estimation inhibitors?

Magazinovic

Pernstål

2008

Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

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The purpose of this qualitative multiple case study is to research the current causes to cost estimation errors and revisit the research question of a well published quantitative study to explore whether responses would be consistent using qualitative methodology. Both overlaps and deviations are to be expected as a result of this comparison. The focus of this paper is on differences where new issues are likely to be found.The 8 resulting cross case cost estimation inhibitors validate 7 out of 16 issues found in the quantitative study. They are also related to the theory within and outside the area of software engineering resulting in five underlying software cost estimation inhibitors and providing a deeper understanding for the snapshot of the current causes of cost estimation errors reported by the practitioners.Lastly, the question of the practitioners' ability to report upon software cost estimation inhibitors is discussed. We argue that there might be causes of cost estimation errors that practitioners might be unwilling to reveal or might even be completely unaware of. Thus, they might unconsciously be providing researchers with invalid data.

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“…Herzberg's theory has looked upon money as a hygiene factor rather than motivator (Gawel, 1997). Badawy (1971Badawy ( , 1978Badawy ( , 1988, Pelz and Andrews (1976), and Amabile, Conti, Coon, Lazenby, and Herron (1996), show that scientists and engineers in general are more motivated intrinsically, that is through work itself and not by external motivators like wealth and money. However, current research has established salary and all kinds of monetary incentives as strong motivators (Bellott & Tutor, 1990;Kasser & Ryan, 1993).…”

Section: Studies On Motivation and Patenting Behaviormentioning

confidence: 95%