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Title

Social and economic motivation at work : theories of work motivation reassessed / Steen Scheuer ; [translation, the Language Center/Copenhagen Business School].

Author

Scheuer, Steen.

Publication

[Copenhagen] : Copenhagen Business School Press, ©2000.

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Details

Description

222 pages; 24 cm

Summary

This book gives an analysis of the dynamics of motivation, and challenges earlier interpretations of the empirical classics of motivation. Rational choice motivations interact with social norms of the workplace in the shape of peer pressure, restriction of output etc.

Uniform Title

Motivation. English

Alternative Title

Motivation.

Subject

• Employee motivation
• Arbeitsmotivation
• Motivatie
• Werknemers
• Beloningen
• Sociale normen

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-217) and index.

Contents

1. Subordinate Actors at Work -- Rational Choice and Social-Normative Actor Motives. 1. Introduction: Interpreting Situations. 2. Actor Motives and Actor Views. 3. Definitions and Justifications. 4. The Rest of the Book: An Outline -- 2. Actor Motives in the Informal Organization -- the Hawthorne Experiments Revisited. 1. Introduction: Human Relations Turn Motivation Upside Down. 2. Phases of the Hawthorne Experiments. 3. The Coil Winding Illumination Test. 4. The 'T' Room. 5. Understanding Employee Dissatisfaction -- The Interviewing Program. 6. The Bank Wiring Observation Room. 7. Summary: The Key Results of the Hawthorne Experiments. 8. Digression: Hawthorne in Scandinavia -- Lysgaard at Moss Cellulose -- 3. Subjectivity and Motivation -- the Actor-Centred Approach. 1. Interlude: Maslow, Herzberg, Blauner. 2. "The Affluent Worker" -- Research Problem and Methodological Design. 3. Types of Satisfaction. 4. The Worker and the Work Group. 5. The Worker, the Company and the Union. 6. The Workers' Social Orientation toward Work. 7. Subsequent Research. 8. The Vauxhall Episode -- 4. Actor Motives in the Actual Labour Process -- Making Out at an American Engineering Works. 1. Introduction: The Labour Process Debate. 2. Braverman's Presentation -- Foundation and Main Results. 3. Criticism of Braverman. 4. Question One: Management and Control. 5. Question Two: Skills and Degradation of Craft Work. 6. Question Three: The Employees' Organized and Unorganized Resistance. 7. Summary of Criticism of Braverman. 8. Burawoy -- How to Reach Agreement and Acceptance on the Shop Floor. 9. "Making Out": Labour Process as a Game. 10. Conflict Displacement. 11. Intensifying the Labour Process. 12. Discussion of Burawoy -- 5. Conclusion: The Actor Motives of the Subordinates -- A Contribution to Industrial Sociology. 1. The Theory of the Actor Motives of Subordinates. 2. Agency in Three Classic Presentations. 3. Summary: The Significance of Rational Choice and Social-Normative Agency at Work. 4. Perspectives for Sociology: Workplace Agency -- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.

ISBN

• 8716134982
• 9788716134981
• 8763000733
• 9788763000734

LCCN

• 2001319954
• 9788716134981

OCLC

• ocm46385329
• 46385329
• SCSB-1275243

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library