Abstract
During a period when incremental efficiencies are arguably more important than ever for the Romanian economy, practitioners therein stand to maintain the highest level of productivity by better understanding how workforce motivation is currently evolving rather than relying on potentially dated assumptions. Therefore, this conceptual chapter, and corresponding exploratory study, was initiated to examine specifically perceptions of workplace motivation in Romania between employees and managers. The exploratory examination was accomplished by means of a survey of Romanian workers in the Romanian cities of Bucharest (the capital) and Oradea. The survey, and the subsequent interviews of employees and managers from six companies, demonstrates that both Romanian managers and employees give the impression of having an acceptable understanding of what motivates the employee. It is from this exploratory information that we concluded that motivation in the Romanian workplace is an authentic concept, and a concept that merits future research and understanding.
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Wilt, R., Liana, P., Adrian, B. (2017). Evolving Perceptions of Romanian Workplace Motivation: An Employee–Manager Comparison. In: Vaduva, S., Fotea, I., Thomas, A. (eds) Business Ethics and Leadership from an Eastern European, Transdisciplinary Context. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45186-2_11
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