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Aligning Management’s Efforts and Employees’ Motivation - A mixed method study of personnel control through training in Swedish dental care

Johansson, Tobias LU and Ekström, Frida LU (2019) BUSN79 20191
Department of Business Administration
Abstract (Swedish)
The study shows how a professional service firm can manage intrinsic
motivation by using training as a personnel control and how training can help when implementing cultural controls cultural. The results show that professionals’ perceive that all the needs for intrinsic motivation are positively related to training, with autonomy having the strongest relation, while extrinsic motivation to a large extent is not related to the training. Relatedness seems to have the most substantial relation to retention, but also autonomy seems
to relate. Overall, this shows that the way management can facilitate motivation through
training, is also in many aspects how the professionals’ perceive that their motivation is
affected.
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author
Johansson, Tobias LU and Ekström, Frida LU
supervisor
organization
course
BUSN79 20191
year
type
H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
subject
keywords
Management Control, Motivation, Professional Service Firms, Retention, Training
language
English
id
8988304
date added to LUP
2019-08-05 10:18:17
date last changed
2019-08-05 10:18:17
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  abstract     = {{The study shows how a professional service firm can manage intrinsic
motivation by using training as a personnel control and how training can help when implementing cultural controls cultural. The results show that professionals’ perceive that all the needs for intrinsic motivation are positively related to training, with autonomy having the strongest relation, while extrinsic motivation to a large extent is not related to the training. Relatedness seems to have the most substantial relation to retention, but also autonomy seems
to relate. Overall, this shows that the way management can facilitate motivation through
training, is also in many aspects how the professionals’ perceive that their motivation is
affected.}},
  author       = {{Johansson, Tobias and Ekström, Frida}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Aligning Management’s Efforts and Employees’ Motivation - A mixed method study of personnel control through training in Swedish dental care}},
  year         = {{2019}},
}