The purpose of this thesis is to broaden the understanding of researchers’ motivation by studying R&D personnel in a company environment and within an area of research that has not been studied before for this purpose. Further we aim to question that they are motivated differently than other occupational groups and to go deeper and develop what we refer to as the myth by looking at it from a need theory perspective.The studied case is the R&D function at an R&D intensive company within the food industry. In order to fulfill our purpose we also included the production unit for comparative reasons. Hence, the production unit represents other occupational groups in this study….
Contents
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 THE SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF R&D PERSONNEL REGARDING MOTIVATION
1.2 MOTIVATING R&D PERSONNEL
1.3 OUR CONTRIBUTION
1.4 OUR PURPOSE
2. METHOD
2.1 CHOICE OF STUDY METHOD
2.2 CHOICE OF STUDY OBJECTS
2.2.1 CHOICE OF STUDY OBJECT
2.2.2 THE CHOICE OF INCLUDING ANOTHER OCCUPATIONAL GROUP
2.2.3 ANONYMITY
2.3 DATA COLLECTION METHOD
2.4 MAKING THE QUESTIONNAIRE
2.5 THE EMPIRICAL DATA COLLECTION
2.6 DATA PROCESSING
2.7 METHOD OF ANALYSIS
2.8 CRITIQUE
2.8.1 LITERATURE CRITICISM
2.8.2 METHOD CRITICISM
3. MOTIVATIONAL FACTORS
3.1 THE CONCEPT OF EXTRINSIC & INTRINSIC
3.2 EXTRINSIC MOTIVATIONAL FACTORS
3.2.1 MONETARY & NON-MONETARY
3.2.2 COLLECTIVE & INDIVIDUAL
3.2.3 FIXED & VARIABLE
3.3 INTRINSIC MOTIVATIONAL FACTORS
3.4 HYPOTHESES
4. WORK MOTIVATION
4.1 MASLOW’S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS
4.2 HERTZBERG’S TWO FACTOR MODEL OF MOTIVATION
4.3 ALDERFER’S ERG THEORY OF MOTIVATION
4.4 MCCLELLAND’S THEORY OF MOTIVATION
4.5 MASLOW ON SELF-ACTUALIZING PEOPLE
5. EMPIRICAL FINDINGS
5.1 SUMMARY OF ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS WITH GIVEN ANSWER ALTERNATIVES
5.1.1 DATA SUMMARY: R&D
5.1.2 DATA SUMMARY: PRODUCTION UNIT
5.2 SUMMARY OF “OPEN ANSWERS”
5.2.1 R&D DEPARTMENT
5.2.2 PRODUCTION UNIT
6. ANALYSIS
6.1 THE ROLE OF THE SALARY
6.2 INTEREST IN WORK
6.3 THE IMPORTANCE OF FREEDOM IN WORK
6.4 IS POWER MOTIVATING FOR EVERYONE?
6.5 INDIVIDUALISM
6.6 RECOGNITION
7. CONCLUSIONS
REFERENCES
LITERATURE
ARTICLES
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B
Author: Anna Kjellander, Jenny Kjellander
Source: Blekinge Institute of Technology
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