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Leadership and Motivation

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Motivating employees is a crucial leadership task, as motivation translates employees’ knowledge, skills, and abilities into effort and performance by determining the direction, intensity, and duration of work-related behaviors. This chapter summarizes the leadership implications of four core perspectives on motivation. It describes why motivating requires a “two-sided understanding” of motivation that in addition to the factors that increase motivation, also covers influences that can decrease motivation. A case from a leadership seminar serves to illustrate how the two-sided view on motivation can help leaders translate their goal to motivate into genuine support. The chapter concludes by discussing how leaders and their employees can cocreate a motivating work context and how they might benefit from a shift from motivating to enabling motivation.

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    Please note that this is meant as a metaphor, rather than a theoretically accurate description.

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  1. Department of Psychology and Methods, Jacobs University, 1 Campus Ring, Bremen, 28759, Germany

    Christian Stamov Roßnagel

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  1. School of Business, Woodbury University, Burbank, California, USA

    Joan Marques

  2. School of Business, Woodbury University, Burbank, California, USA

    Satinder Dhiman

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Roßnagel, C.S. (2017). Leadership and Motivation. In: Marques, J., Dhiman, S. (eds) Leadership Today. Springer Texts in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31036-7_12

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