This article is concerned with how persons in leadership roles can elicit
the motivation, commitment, and personal investment of members of
an organization. Recent research on employee motivation is briefly
summarized and interpreted. It is argued that those in leadership roles
bear a special responsibility for creating a sense of purpose in the
organization. It is as leaders engage the members of an organization in
establishing goals, in focusing on the purpose of their work and the
mission of the organization, that they are most likely to elicit personal
investment. The design and use of other management tasks, especially
evaluation, play an important complementary role in reinforcing the
sense of a shared purpose and therewith can contribute significantly to
the development of employee commitment.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Allerton Park Institute (29th : 1987)
ISSN
0536-4604
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1673
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