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Maintaining Momentum: The Challenge Of A Workplace Physical Activity Program To Sustain Motivation And Activity, Pascal Scherrer, Nadine Henley, Lynnaire Sheridan, Ruth Sibson, Maria Ryan
Maintaining Momentum: The Challenge Of A Workplace Physical Activity Program To Sustain Motivation And Activity, Pascal Scherrer, Nadine Henley, Lynnaire Sheridan, Ruth Sibson, Maria Ryan
Maria M Ryan
Physical inactivity is one of the major contributors to ill health and, hence, productivity costs in Australia. While the workplace is increasingly recognised as an appropriate site for promoting healthy behaviour, the effectiveness of workplace physical activity programs remains to be demonstrated, particularly with regards to participants’ motivation to achieve sustained positive physical activity behaviour change. This exploratory study examined how participation in the Global Corporate Challenge (GCC) affected participants’ motivation to sustain regular physical activity. The GCC is a commercially operated four-month program based on the 10,000 steps-a-day concept. Three distinct phases in terms of participant motivation were identified …
Entrepreneurial Motivation, Scott Shane, Edwin Locke, Christopher Collins
Entrepreneurial Motivation, Scott Shane, Edwin Locke, Christopher Collins
Christopher J Collins
Recent research on entrepreneurship has focused largely on macro-level environmental forces. Although researchers adopting this focus have rightly criticized much of the existing empirical research on the role of human motivation in entrepreneurship, we believe that the development of entrepreneurship theory requires consideration of the motivations of people making entrepreneurial decisions. To provide a road map for researchers interested in this area, we discuss the major motivations that prior researchers have suggested should influence the entrepreneurial process, as well as suggest some motivations that are less commonly studied in this area. In addition to outlining the major reasons for exploring …
Back To Basics: Learning About Employee Energy And Motivation From Running On My Treadmill, Theresa Welbourne
Back To Basics: Learning About Employee Energy And Motivation From Running On My Treadmill, Theresa Welbourne
Theresa M. Welbourne, PhD
In an effort to understand how to optimize employee energy at work, we borrow from the sports physiology literature to develop and test several concepts that have now been used in more than 75 large and small organizations (e.g., automobile firms, banks, hospitals, manufacturing, high technology, service businesses, financial services, and more). Our focus on employee energy led us to develop new measures and processes for our research. The resulting studies presented in this article test two hypotheses focusing on the link between employee energy, turnover, job performance, and job satisfaction. Consistent with what we know about athletic performance, we …