Intrinsic motivation for creativity of agricultural holdings in Kirşehir province of Turkey

Abstract

The agriculture sector which has gained importance with Industry 4.0 in recent years, strives to adapt to the needs and requirements of the era by stripping from its traditional structure. In this process, it is important to increase the motivation (intrinsic and extrinsic) of human resources factor, which is the most important input of agriculture, on innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship. This paper examined the factors that affect the intrinsic motivation of the agricultural holdings managers in Kirsehir province of Turkey on their creativity for innovation, which is one of the main variables of growth. Questionnaire forms were filled with 312 agricultural holdings managers who were selected according to the Probability Sampling Method in September-October, 2019. Intrinsic motivation scores for creativity (IMC) were obtained by using 5-point scale. Determined some socio-demographical, agricultural, economic and behavioral variables for agricultural holdings were tested with IMC levels. As a result of the study, it was determined that variables such as education, social security status, share of agricultural income, subjective poverty and risk behaviors significantly affect the IMC level of the agricultural enterprise managers. As a result, the measures to increase both the internal and external motivations of the agricultural enterprises managers are required in order to make agriculture more competitive, profitable and sustainable by removing it from the traditional structure. In this regard, not only the economic side but also the social side of agriculture should not be ignored and the potential of agriculture should be used more with structural reforms.

The Values Supporting the Creativity of Employees

“…The compiled list of values consists from: A1: the meaningfulness of work (employees know the meaning of their work) (Yeh-Yun Lin and Liu, 2012; Pirola-Merlo and Mann, 2021; Zhang H. et al, 2021); A2: engagement according to González-González and García-Almeida (2021) and Özdemir et al (2021); A3: enthusiasm resp. passion (González-González and García-Almeida, 2021; Görzen, 2021;Muñoz-Pascual et al, 2021); A4: cooperation (Muñoz-Pascual et al, 2021;Ozer and Zhang, 2021;Zhang H. et al, 2021;Zhang Y. et al, 2021); A5: recognition (public, personal) (Gong et al, 2009;Oyedele, 2013;Görzen, 2021;Zhang H. et al, 2021); A6: open communication (Oyedele, 2013;González-González and García-Almeida, 2021;Muñoz-Pascual et al, 2021;Zhang H. et al, 2021); A7: support (Gong et al, 2009;Yeh-Yun Lin and Liu, 2012;Özdemir et al, 2021); A8: autonomy (Muñoz-Pascual et al, 2021;Wang et al, 2021); A9: emphasis on health (Oyedele, 2013;Özdemir et al, 2021); A10: trust (Baldé et al, 2018); A11: responsibility (inner sense of responsibility) (Görzen, 2021;Muñoz-Pascual et al, 2021). Questionnaire responses were analyzed using SPSS Statistics 26.…”

Integrated Service Architecture to Promote the Circular Economy in Agriculture 4.0

“…Integrating smallholder farmers into innovative trends [31] contributes to keeping young people in the countryside with rural tourism and social entrepreneurship activities, diversifying household income [32]. Additionally, various technological solutions are still restricted to large agricultural conglomerates and are more focused on profit than on food security and social context [33].…”

The relationship between personal intrinsic factors towards a design problem and the degree of novelty and circularity

“…Motivation is one of the most considered personal intrinsic factors in the literature (Taylor 2021;Özdemir 2021;Terlato 2018;Zarei and Sharifabad 2012;Robinson et al 2005). This study considers four intrinsic personal factors: motivation, for being the most contemplated in literature, and perception of knowledge, relevance and affinity because these three factors could presumably be related to motivation.…”