Editorial - Work and Motivation (original) (raw)

Felicidade e bem-estar e trabalho: um encontro possível na perspectiva gerencial?

Revista de Administração da UFSM

This article starts from the examination of the historical conceptions of work and its meaning in the life of organization managers. As the interest in work, well-being and happiness increase, also increase in the same proportion the need to elaborate an appropriate taxonomy of these concepts, starting from its meaning and characteristics attributed to the work. These scores help to determine how work juxtaposes the happiness and well-being constructs. A taxonomy and its indicators help determine how juxtaposes the happiness and well being constructs. Subsidizing the theoretical studies, a field research was done with 249 executive managers of the Rio-São Paulo axis. The statistical treatment adopted was an exploratory factorial analysis. The research finds revealed that the pace of activity imposed on managers is closed to the original meaning of the term, suffering. It is assessed - not generalizable - that happiness, well-being and quality of life at work, are not isolated c...

Fatores De Motivação No Trabalho De Enfermagem

Revista de Pesquisa: Cuidado é Fundamental Online, 2013

Objectives: to identify the factors of motivation in nursing work and discuss the implications of the motivating factors in nursing care. Method: a descriptive study with qualitative approach. The participants were nurses at a university hospital. It was used the technique of semi-structured interview. The data were analyzed using words or phrases that emerged from the records of the interviews, grouped into themes. Results: the work motivation is related to the outcome of nursing care, while demotivation, remuneration, lack of material resources, recognition/appreciation of the work, the multidisciplinary relationship. Conclusion: the nursing staff feels part of the care process, understands that work motivation is related to a number of positive or negative variables that recognizes motivation is a key component for the "good" performance of nursing care. Descriptors: Nursing, Motivation, Occupational health. RESUMO Objetivos: Identificar os fatores de motivação no trabalho da enfermagem e discutir as implicações dos fatores de motivação na assistência da enfermagem. Método: Estudo descritivo, abordagem qualitativa. Os participantes foram os profissionais de enfermagem de um hospital universitário. Utilizou-se a técnica de entrevista semi-estruturada. Os dados foram analisados mediante palavras ou frases que emergiram dos registros das entrevistas, agrupados em eixos temáticos. Resultados: A motivação no trabalho está relacionada ao resultado positivo do cuidado de enfermagem, ao passo que a desmotivação a remuneração, a falta de recursos materiais, de reconhecimento/valorização do trabalho, o relacionamento multiprofissional. Conclusão: A equipe de enfermagem sente-se parte integrante do processo de cuidar, entende que a motivação no trabalho está relacionada a uma série de variáveis positivas ou negativas, reconhece que a motivação é um componente fundamental para o "bom" desempenho do cuidado de enfermagem. Descritores: Enfermagem, Motivação, Saúde do trabalhador. RESUMEN Objetivos: identificar los factores de motivación en el trabajo de enfermería y discutir las implicaciones de los factores de motivación en los cuidados de enfermería. Método: estudio descriptivo con enfoque cualitativo. Los participantes eran enfermeras de un hospital universitario. Se utilizó la técnica de entrevista semi-estructurada. Los datos fueron analizados utilizando palabras o frases que surgieron a partir de los registros de las entrevistas, agrupadas por temas. Resultados: la motivación en el trabajo está relacionada con los resultados de la atención de enfermería, mientras que desmotiva la remuneración, la falta de recursos materiales, el reconocimiento por el trabajo, la relación multidisciplinar. Conclusión: El personal de enfermería se siente parte del proceso de atención, entiende que la motivación en el trabajo se relaciona con una serie de variables positivas o negativas, reconocen que la motivación es un componente clave para el "bien" de atención de rendimiento de enfermería. Descriptores: Enfermería, Motivación, Salud ocupacional.

Editorial - Desempenho e Satisfação no Trabalho

Revista de Carreiras e Pessoas, 2022

Corporate reality coexists with many new tensions. The arrival of the digital world has generated transformations in all aspects in the context of organizations. No exceptions. The algorithm invaded the entire decision-making process. Even among those who imagine keeping "their world" away from the digital order, for the simple reason that their competitor has already done so. All professional choices, including career expectations, already keep all their attention focused on the "data message". This scenario of constant "boiling" generated other dimensions for the job satisfaction construct. Other metrics to measure performance coexist with new tools, including gamification, which define different designs for the professional environment, from recruitment and selection to, for example, performance evaluation. In this trajectory of complete innovation, other motivational tools have redefined the traditional logic implicit in the idea of job satisfaction. In this process, the perception of what organizational support is also gained another representation and another structure. It is in this context, in which the expectations of sharing and mutual benefit between the individual and the organization gained another matrix of knowledge defined by the algorithm, that the theme performance and satisfaction at work became the thematic axis of the articles that make up the second issue of the Volume 12 of the Careers and People Journal. The article that opens this issue of ReCaPe, "Training and development with a focus on gamification: a view of the process from Brazilian consultancies, by researcher Daniel Hank Miri, researcher at the University of Caxias do Sul, by Luana Folchini da Costa, professor at this university and Bruna Silva Grabowski and Débora Kaiser Bragé, also researchers at the University of Caxias do Sul, aims to analyze the process of insertion of gamification practices in Brazilian training and development consulting companies. Also part of the objectives of the study, to identify and describe the stages and difficulties, as well as opportunities and threats of the use of gamification. The research, with a qualitative profile, separated a sample of Brazilian training and development consultancies that were selected based on their performance with gamification and availability of participation. The collection of primary and secondary data involved both interviews followed by documental analysis and activities, as well as direct observation of the tools used in the practices.

“Happiness Management»: Review of scientific literature in the framework of happiness at work

The changes in the world of work and organizations and their impact on people’s lives have raised a new way of approaching the relationship between work and happiness. A bibliometric study is carried out of the works on the economy of happiness that have been published in Spanish between 2000 and 2018. To do so, the EDS-Multidisciplinary search engine (EBSCO Discovery Service) is used, selecting 95 publications that deal with this subject. As a result of the study a greater production of theoretical approaches is found on the subject as opposed to empirical research. In the latter, the works are fundamentally analyzed from the economic and psychological perspective. The clearly growing trend of scientific production on happiness and work has two important aspects: On the one hand, the very time of great changes, which emerges continuously new explanatory and prescriptive paradigms; and, on the other hand, this increase agrees with the end of the economic crisis. Overcoming and leaving behind the preoccupations of this great imbalance of the world economic system has once again focused the interest on making companies more productive and humane, preserving occupational health and improving personal development. In this sense, the urgent need for a multidisciplinary approach to this area from empirical research that contributes to improving relations between the world of work and the subjective well-being of people is highlighted.

La motivación de los sujetos en la nueva gestión de recursos humanos

2015

The study was conducted in the area of Human Resources, with emphasis on satisfaction and motivation at work. The research aimed to identify the degree of motivation of staff, and environmental influence on the satisfaction of these internal environments of the company. This was an interpretive research, characterized as exploratory, descriptive approach with qualitative and quantitative data. It was a case study where we analyzed the data of 19 questions answered by company employees Construction and Incorporated Walan Ltda. Those results showed a satisfactory degree of motivation in the internal environment of the organization studied.

An approach to the design of a scale for measuring happiness at work of Iberian companies

2013

By reviewing bibliography on happiness at work, we may say that from a management perspective, this subject is yet poorly explained. So, main reason to conduct this research was he few number of references on organizational happiness in the field of Business and Economics, despite it increasing importance. More specifically, the non-existence of scales to measure happiness at work in Iberia. In this article we aim to propose an exploratory scale to measure happiness at work in Portuguese and Spanish organizations. To do that, we look for primary data collection by using a questionnaire with open questions. The research is qualitative and was conducted applying complementary phases: (1) data collection, (2) storage, (3) coding, (4) indexing system refinement, (5) relational code and (6) identify categories (key concepts). In phases 3, 4, 5, and 6 a content analysis was applied. To analyze the scale robustness in two cultures we have applied Hofstede's model. This model confirms t...

Measurement and Improvement of the Happiness. Case Study: Engineering Projects

IJMSOR: International Journal of Management Science & Operation Research, 2019

The construction of civil works is the development index of a nation, in countries like Colombia, this sector depends on the human factor, which is why it is of utmost importance that employees are happy in carrying out their daily activities. Due to this, this study was developed to measure the degree of job satisfaction on a scale of five response levels in a civil works construction company, where the concepts of the vertical workload theory were applied, through the which, they indicated their degree of satisfaction. The results obtained reveal that, at the beginning of each workday, the boss should hold meetings with the intention of motivating. In addition, he should carry out group recreational activities or active breaks so that the work environment improves continuously and a better performance of the workers, which will allow a high probability of increasing the company's productivity. Resumen-La construcción de obras civiles es el índice de desarrollo de una nación, en países como Colombia, este sector depende del factor humano, por lo cual es de suma importancia que, los empleados estén felices en la realización de sus actividades diarias. Debido a ello, se desarrolló este estudio para medir el grado de satisfacción laboral en una escala de cinco niveles de respuesta en una compañía de construcción de obras civiles, donde se aplicaron los conceptos de la teoría de carga vertical de trabajo, a través de los cuales, ellos indicaban su grado de satisfacción. Los resultados obtenidos revelan que, al inicio de cada jornada laboral, el jefe debería realizar reuniones con la intención de motivar, Además, debería realizar actividades recreativas grupales o pausas activas para que el ambiente de trabajo mejore continuamente y se obtenga un mejor desempeño de los trabajadores, lo que permitirá una alta probabilidad de aumentar la productividad de la compañía. Palabras clave-Carga de trabajo vertical; Construcción de obras civiles; Empleados felices; Proyectos de ingeniería; Satisfacción laboral.

Teoría de la felicidad laboral superior para empresarios y directores ejecutivos de América Latina

Dictamen Libre, 2019

Ultimately, this investigation presents the theoretical construct about the occupational Happiness and presents new terminology in order to name the actors of the occupational process. Similarly, this analysis shows numerous recommendations aimed to businessmen and CEOs from different corporations. Moreover, it also covers the talented people who provide their services in a company and append a Syllabus in order to orientate happiness programs in the different companies, institutions and corporations to a global scale.

Creativity and innovation for corporate happiness management

Brazilian Journal of Science and Technology, 2017

In the system in which we are currently inserted, happiness and work seem to be completely exclusive words and without any possibility of association. The following study intends to show that it is possible to find a balance between happiness and work (Csikszentmihalyi in Gestão qualificada: a conexão entre felicidade e negócio, Bookman, Porto Alegre, 2004), by diagnosing the level of happiness shown by people in their working environment's, proposing solutions to enhance happiness and productive in certain enterprise's staff (Tidd and Bessant in Innovation and entrepreneurship, Wiley, London, 2007; Gestão da Inovação, Bookman, Porto Alegre, 2008). It is necessary, hence, an analysis beyond the happy-unhappy dichotomy when observing the different happiness levels presented in the routine and in the working hours, based on the interactions between creativity and innovation (Amabile in KEYS to creativity and innovation: user's guide, Center For Creative Leadership, Greensboro, 2010; Sawyer in Explaining creativity: the science of human innovation, 2nd edn, Oxford University Press, Cambridge, 2012; West and Richter in Handbook of organizational creativity, 1st edn, Taylor and Francis, New York, 2008). Furthermore, this article shows that it is essential to combine the present's happiness to a long-term project, an optimistic vision for the future (James and Drown in Handbook of organizational creativity, 1st edn, Elsevier, San Diego, 2012). To evaluate the work and a person's life, this article develops a Multi Criteria Model of Work Organization and Evaluation and a Map of the Corporate Happiness Levels as a conscious path through workplace, collaboration in the enterprise, the marketplace and society, up to the personal and social life of a subject (Kamel in Artesão da minha própria felicidade, 1st edn. E-papers Serviços Editoriais Ltda, Rio de Janeiro, 2007). It offers ten practical recommendations to raise corporation rates of happiness. Accordingly, this paper proves its relevance by offering reference material to professionals and enterprises who search changes in its current personal management policy, willing to move towards a society with increasingly fulfilled professionals, happy and productive in their own employment.