Subject:BUS600 Foundational Skills for Academic Research (Business) • Students will choose a business journal article, book chapter or other academic work to review in essay form. • Students will be...

Foundational Skills for Academic Research (Business)
Foundational Skills for Academic Research (Business)
BUS600
Research Topic – How to Motivate Employees at Work
Motivation of employee is a key parameter for the success of organization. Overall quality of the work that people deliver on the ground is cumulative outcome of how connected they are with their work. Organization have numerous ways by the virtue of which they can motivate their employees and engage them such that they are happy. For instance, business have targets to be achieved based on the overall performance of the employees and if those targets are achieved then employees needs to be rewarded. The first journal article that I will refer that can add concrete value at work is "Commitment and Motivation At Work: The Relevance of Employee Identity and Regulatory Focus". This research explains a model that can distinguish among various types of commitments that cross the levels of self-identity compromising of collective, individual and relational aspects. This also cover the regulatory foci that involves prevention and promotion. Research is specifically very important since it explains crucial ways in which convergent as well as validity of discriminant exist among various different types of commitment. JOHNSON, R. E., CHANG, C.-H. (DAISY), & YANG, L.-Q. (2010). COMMITMENT AND MOTIVATION AT WORK: THE RELEVANCE OF EMPLOYEE IDENTITY AND REGULATORY FOCUS. The Academy of Management Review, 35(2), 226–245. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25682410. Essentially, the Academy of Management Review is most cited of management references. AMR offers most insightful and influential business journals that publishes rigorously due the conceptual papers that can advance in aspects of human psychology and practice of management.
The second journal article that offer me practical knowledge and key insights to deep dive in this research, Analysis of Self-Reported Motives for Task-Related helping: implication for an integrated theory of helping. This is a journal articles in the JSTOR sharing deep insights aim to comprehend the antecedent motives underlying task-related to interpersonal interactions. Taber, T. D., & Deosthali, K. (2014). Analysis of Self-Reported Motives for Task-Related Helping:...