Med Hackman och Oldhams (1976) teori om grunderna för att känna arbetstillfredsställelse undersöks här om motivation, organisationskultur och personlighet kan ha något förklaringssamband. Motivationshygienteorin som är framtagen av Herzberg (Herzberg, Mausner & Snyderman, 1959) används för att undersöka motivation. För personlighet används den välkända och väl validerade femfaktormodellen som McCrae och Costa har gjort sig kända för. Organisationskultur mäts utifrån Scheins (1990) definition av organisationskultur. Utifrån dessa teorier utformades en enkät som var mätinstrumentet.

Syftet med föreliggande studie var att undersöka och jämföra motivationen hos amatör- och elitfotbollsspelare mot bakgrund av ålder, prestationsnivå och attribuering. Följande frågeställningar har besvarats: (1) Skiljer sig motivationen åt mellan elitidrottare och amatöridrottare? (2) Attribuerar elitidrottare och amatöridrottare olika? (3) Påverkar ålder motivationen? Försökspersoner (n=32) i ett amatörlag (n=16) och ett elitlag (n=16) fick fylla i en enkät, uppbyggd av Sport Motivation Scale och Attribution Theory. Ett oberoende t-test och ett korrelationstest utfördes. En signifikant skillnad upptäcktes mellan amatör och elit på kategorierna Inre Motivation och Amotivation.

Monetära belöningar är en vanlig förekommande metod i kunskapsintensiva företag för attöka motivation och därmed prestation hos en organisations medarbetare samtidigt sommonetära belöningars influens på motivation är ett omtvistat ämne där vitt skilda resultat haruppvisats. Ett förbisett område inom motivationsforskning är huruvida monetära belöningarinfluerar strategiskt lärande. Dock använder kunskapsintensiva företag monetära belöningarsamtidigt som anställdas strategiska lärande är av stor vikt för fortsatt överlevnad. Dennauppsats ämnar därmed belysa detta med intentionen att utveckla forskningsbidrag till såvälteori som praktik. Resultatet av vår kvalitativa undersökning tyder på att motivation tillstrategiskt lärande influeras av autonom motivation och att monetära belöningar indirektinfluerar till motivation genom att vara en symbol för att uppnå något för individen önskvärt.Subjektiva och otydliga mål kan vara fördelaktiga för att åstadkomma autonom motivationhos företagets individer då dessa uppmuntrar till nyfikenhet och egna individuella tolkningar..

Syftet med studien var att undersöka upplevd motivation hos tävlingsaktiva inom fitness. Sex semistrukturerade intervjuer analyserades med en abduktiv tematisk ansats. Den teoretiska utgångspunkten var Self-Determination Theory (Deci & Ryan, 2000). Resultatet delades in i fyra teman: Fitness som livsstil, Målsättningens betydelse för tävlingssatsningen, Upplevd valfrihet i fitnessutövandet samt Identitetsskapande inom fitness. Resultatet påvisade en spridning i informanternas tal vad gäller motivation.

Syftet med vårt undersökning var att öka elevernas motivation att lära sig matematik genom att arbeta med vardagsanknuten matematik. Undersökningen gjordes i Luleå och Kiruna kommun, i tre olika årskurser 5, 6 respektive 7. Sammanlagt hade vi 50 elever. Arbetet inleddes med en första intervju som visade elevernas åsikter om ämnet matematik. Utvecklingsarbetet genomfördes genom att arbeta med vardagsrelaterade uppgifter i små grupper eller enskilt.

This study is based on the notion that the most widely cited and used instrument for assessing volunteer motivations, the Volunteer Function Inventory (VFI), might not be sufficient in its aspiration to aid, streamline and benefit the recruitment and retention process within volunteer organizations. Understanding volunteers? motivation is a crucial component in the process of securing future volunteer engagement in a world where their efforts are desperately needed.This study aims to explain motives and motivation behind volunteer efforts in extreme situations as well as to examine the dependability of the theoretical framework in relation to the forthcoming result, based on the following research questions:What motivated Swedish medical personnel to volunteer during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa?How could the motives and motivation of Swedish medical personnel be categorized in accordance with the Volunteer Function Inventory (VFI)?Is the Volunteer Function Inventory (VFI) a sufficient tool for analyzing the motives and motivation of Swedish medical personnel in the given case?The presented research questions will be answer through a qualitative theory-consuming study, based mainly on interviews. The interviews are, however, complimented by various written sources in the field of research.The result and subsequent analysis confirms the authors? notion on the VFI and highlights certain deficits in the tool?s execution and its succeeding result.

The aim of this Master?s thesis is to study the effects that geographical distance have on the control systems in a scattered organization and how this, ultimately, affects the employees in terms of loyalty and motivation. In order to do this, a case study has been conducted on a multinational travel group and its local branches in Thailand. The study is based on a selected number of theories focusing mainly on control systems in multinational contexts as well as on theories regarding communication and autonomy. The conclusion of the study is that geographical distance has led to a rather large autonomy for the local branches and that the headquarter to a large extent rely more on formal control.

During the last decade research in leadership has escalated and newleadership styles have started to prevail. This study intends to examinewhether a leaders increased level of motivation in turn can motivateemployees. A major company included all employees in a leader position inan exhaustive intervention with the purpose to increase the leaders?motivation in order for them to motivate their employees. After theintervention, which ended in spring 2012, interviews with six differentemployees at the company were made to see if their level of motivation hadincreased.

Den här uppsatsen handlar om motivation i arbetslivet och hur chefer och medarbetare ser på detta fenomen. Det vi tar upp är hur organisationen påverkar och vilken inverkan kommunikation och ledarskap har på motivationen. Uppsatsen inleds med hur en offentlig organisation kan se ut och betydelsen av målformulering för de som arbetar inom organisationen. Därefter tar vi upp relevanta motivationsteorier och går in på vad motivation är. De två sista delarna tar upp hur kommunikation och ledarskap påverkar motivationen hos medarbetarna. Vi valde att göra vår undersökning på en kommunal förvaltning som har till uppgift att motivera klienter till egenförsörjning.

Abstract: Elite soccer in combination with education is a unique and demanding task. The path towards a glory career in sports takes hard mental and physical training. The objectives in this study are 6 elite focused high school students studying high school education programs in combination with football profile. They are 3 of each gender. The purpose of the study was to find out more about their perspective of motivation and what makes them keep going towards a career in football in beside their education.The study is of empiric hermeneutic survey used qualitative method and interviewing to collect data.

Syftet med vårt arbete har varit att få förklaringar till hur motivationen fungerar hos elever som valt olika intresseinriktningar under sina senare grundksoleår. Vi ville veta vad som gör att elever klarar av både det oridnarie skolarbetet samt förlängda skoldagar. I studien som är av kvalitativ karaktär har vi intervjuat högstadieelever med frågor angående om de upplever att deras motivation påverkas av att de studerar på en utbildning med profilerad inriktning. Då motivation är centralt i vårt kommande yrke som lärare anser vi att vi fått många tankar om hur vi som lärare kan stödja elever att hitta sina drivkrafter för att klara studierna..

Through an examination on a Telemarketing company this paper aim to investigate which relations there is between the level of motivation and performance and how these are related to the factors that are included in Herzbergs two-factor-theory.In this essay we have been using a questionnaire and interview. We have also been able to collect statistics on employees from the Telemarketing company we examine. On the basis of these data we have analyzed which relations there is.The examination shows on relations who mean that the factors Performance and Acknowledgement are the ones that affect the motivation the most, and therefore the level of Performance. The rest of the Motivation factors don?t show any clear relations.

The purpose of this study was to examine and compare what six preschool teachers thought about their opportunities to take advantage of children's interest in natural sciences and technology, across four kindergartens. The following questions were explored in order to achieve the aim of the study: How do the preschool teachers interviewed describe their work with science and technology in the preschool and what these preschool teachers think about the meaning of motivation in the children?s learning of natural sciences and technology in preschool.  The study used a qualitative approach in the form of semi-structured interviews and interviewed a total of six trained pre-school teachers from four kindergartens with different profiles. The first kindergarten focuses on mathematics, science and technology.

Today there is a shortage of skilled IT-technicians in Sweden. It is approximated that Swedish companies can hire 31 000 IT-technicians in 2015 and the need seems to increase in the coming years. One proposed solution to this problem is to make programming more desirable to youths. In this study we attempt to investigate the effects of an introductory course in computer science on youths? (16-17 years old) in a classroom setting.

This bachelor thesis discus how store managers at Clas Ohlson motivate their co-workers at their everyday work.Motivation at work is essential, since engaging co-works makes the everyday routine work more effective. Otherwise that type of work can easily lead to unhappiness at the workplace which leads to less motivated workers, poor performance, even less motivated workers and this will start a negative circle.Other studies has shown that to in order to be pleased at a workplace and to keep qualified co-workers, the leaders needs to have knowledge in how they can use different techniques to increase staff motivation, but still motivation is not considered being an economic means of control. This has made me think about how leaders can motivate their workers at their everyday work.The questions at issue are:o How can leaders motivate co-workers in everyday work,o Which preferences the leaders consider control the individual motivation ando Which methods they can use to increase the motivation in the routine work.The purpose with this thesis is to study how leaders use their leadership to motivate workers to perform everyday work with more enthusiasm. To answer the question I have interviewed store managers at Clas Ohlson.In this thesis I have used a qualitative method, and I have compared relevant theories with the interviews I have done. Thus primary data has been gained through one-to-one interviews but also through mail interviews.