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Positive and negative motivation in IT startups
Hoang Minh, Tuan ; Legnerová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Králová, Tereza (referee)
This work's main purpose is to clarify the reasons for selected IT startup leaders to use motivational factors. It also explores which interpersonal relationships exist at the given workplaces. Finally, it identifies which support resources help interpersonal relationships in the organization. The theoretical part deals with selected positive and negative motivational factors, which can usually be encountered at startups and normally in the workplace. It defines basic terms such as positive and negative motivation. Also mentioned are the pitfalls of very widely used motivational tools such as motivation, financial reward, or punishment based on available scientific studies.
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Motivation as a leadership
Pluhař, Josef ; Fiedler, Jiří (advisor) ; Horáková, Jana (referee)
The topic of the bachelor's thesis is "motivation as a managing technique". In the first part it focuses on defining broad theoretical concepts and in the second it addresses the research itself. The first part puts the biggest emphasis on defining terms such as management and manager, which are the key organizational aspects of a company. Next, the thesis discusses basic managerial functions such as organizing, supervising and mainly managing people. An important topic is setting motivation, in which terms like motive, stimulus, value, need and other work motivators are discussed. The end of the theoretical part describes individual motivational theories by numerous authors. The ideas of Maslow, Herzberg, Vroom, McClleland, Adams and Skinner are analyzed in detail. In the practical part, all of the aforementioned theories confront with research. The research was conducted via structured interviews of five managers, three men and two women. The interviews analyze personal characteristics of the managers and the way they behave towards their employees. Furthermore, they discuss motivational stimuli, which the managers apply on their subordinates and which have the most profound influence on them. Benefits, which each company offers and their sufficiency. The managers react to managerial functions and their application in the field. In the last part, managers share what motivates them and what brings them joy from done work.
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