Year: 1983
Type: article
Abstract: In the past twenty years two major schools of thought on motivation for performance in the work environment have arisen. Each has been extensively tested and applied with success in a wide variety of industries. These theories are summarized and the literature reviewed, with attention paid to the implications of the theories for library management. Although the theo-ries of valence-instrumentality-expectancy and reinforcement derived from different sources, what each implies for library management is remarkably similar. n the last two decades an in-creasing portion of business school management instruc-tion has been devoted to theo-ries of motivation. Yet, the literature in li-brary journals contains little reference to the two modern theories dominating cur-rent motivational practices. Even recent li-brary management texts reflect the old
Source: College & Research Libraries
Authors: Shmuel Sever, Fred Westcott
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2038297737