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Personnel motivation represents one of the basic elements of human resources management, being at the same time one of the main research objective used by specialists in management, psychology, sociology etc. Human resources represent the engine of working activities, regardless of the public or the private sector these belong to, thus personnel satisfaction and motivation is adapted to each organization in order to lead optimum, efficient and rapid results. The research realized and presented in this chapter highlights the motivational factors with a high percentage used by public institution from the Caras-Severin County, which help managers in motivating persons to chose and keep a job in the public sector. The research methodology implies a quantitative factor, through the application of a questionnaire to a sample of 60 persons hired by two state institutions: a department of the Caras-Severin County Council and a national agency.
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Cornean, CE. (2020). Study on the Public Sector Personnel Motivation in the Caras-Severin County. In: Flaut, D., Hošková-Mayerová, Š., Ispas, C., Maturo, F., Flaut, C. (eds) Decision Making in Social Sciences: Between Traditions and Innovations. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 247. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30659-5_29
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