Leadership and Motivation

Christian Stamov Roßnagel ()
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Christian Stamov Roßnagel: Jacobs University

Chapter 12 in Leadership Today, 2017, pp 217-228 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Motivating employees is a crucial leadership task, as motivation translates employees’ knowledge, skills, and abilities into effort and performance by determining the direction, intensity, and duration of work-related behaviors. This chapter summarizes the leadership implications of four core perspectives on motivation. It describes why motivating requires a “two-sided understanding” of motivation that in addition to the factors that increase motivation, also covers influences that can decrease motivation. A case from a leadership seminar serves to illustrate how the two-sided view on motivation can help leaders translate their goal to motivate into genuine support. The chapter concludes by discussing how leaders and their employees can cocreate a motivating work context and how they might benefit from a shift from motivating to enabling motivation.

Keywords: Intrinsic Motivation; Motivational Interview; Personal Resource; Grand Unify Theory; Motivational Intervention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-31036-7_12

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