Motivating Factors

All efforts requiring massive investments of capital and staff are motivated by some factor that focuses top management s attention. How much capital and staff would these changes require For this company, the motivating factor was compliance with the supply chain requirements of its major customers in the mass merchant sector of retail. 

As anyone familiar with the mass merchandising supply chain situation knows, the question is not whether you will comply, but how soon you will be in full compliance. The compliance issues involve a complex and continuously evolving combination of requirements including the following  

As these supply chain requirements were evolving in the early 1990s, the management of the case study company was proactive in planning not just 

As another motivation for the project, domestic manufacturing requirements and the associated material storage requirements were increasing. This created pressures for storage on the inboxmd supply side from the company s factory and other suppliers. 

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A catalyst is a material that accelerates a reaction rate towards thennodynamic equilibrium conversion without itself being consumed in the reaction. Reactions occur on catalysts at particular sites, called active sites , which may have different electronic and geometric structures than neighbouring sites. Catalytic reactions are at the heart of many chemical industries, and account for a large fraction of worldwide chemical production. Research into fiindamental aspects of catalytic reactions has a strong economic motivating factor a better understanding of the catalytic process... 

Are global technology networks and collaborations fostered Are individual objectives supporting the plan Is individual work organized Are teams adequately chartered Are individual motivation factors understood and acted upon Are researchers becoming active learners ... 

Ideally the historical record of stream water quaUty would extend back to a time when human activities in the drainage basin had no significant effects. This "pristine" condition had probably already passed in most U.S. rivers before any organized water quaUty studies were made, as concern about apparent stream pollution was commonly a motivating factor in starting such studies (see Water, pollution). 

Motivators—Factors that drive particular behaviors. 

Debus, Allen George. Quantification and medical motivation factors in the interpretation of early modem chemistry. Pharm Hist 31 (1989) 3-11. 

Hur MH (2006) Exploring the motivation factors of charitable giving and their value structure a case study of Seoul, Korean. Soc Behav Pers 34(6) 661-680... 

Persistent, high-level viral replication is now established as the motivating factor of HIV pathogenesis with about 10 billion virions (viral particles complete with RNA and envelope) in an infected person daily. 

Since that time, a variety of alternatives to refined petroleum products have been evaluated and used as fuels for internal combustion engines. Reasons for considering synthetic and alternative fuels stem from two primary motivating factors the need to ensure an adequate supply of low-cost fuel, and the desire to use fuel that bums completely and cleanly without undesirable exhaust emissions. 

As discussed in Chapter 12, microelectrode techniques allow the easy determination of the rates of reaction of species with half-lives on the order of 10 ps, which can be extended in certain cases to submicrosecond half-lives. Nevertheless, it is sometimes better to lower the rate of the chemical reaction by lowering the temperature this is probably the most common motivating factor for such studies. 

Several motivating factors are involved in sedative-hypnotic misuse and abuse. Abusers may seek to... 

Another potential explanation for differences between the MSLT and the MWT is that the MWT, because of its instructions to remain awake, adds a nonlinear motivational factor that is not present with the MSLT. The MWT often reveals improvement in treated patients who continue to be physiologically sleepy. Thus, the MWT is sometimes considered to be a way of extending the sensitivity range of the MSLT (13). Reasoning that an MWT is simply an MSLT plus a motivational component (even a nonlinear component) falters, however, because it assumes that motivational factors are not present in the MSLT. Such an assumption with respect to the MSLT is not justified. 

TABLE 3. Energy densities (HHV) and motivity factors for liquid and gaseous fuels... 

Many organizations have responded to LC/MS because of some seemingly common motivating factors. These factors provide a perspective as to why LC/MS has become so prominent throughout the drug development cycle and provide unique insights into the future prospects for growth. 

The 14 resulting motivation factors, in the order of importance, were labelled as (1) novelty, (2) escape/relax, (3) relationship (strengthen), (4) autonomy, (5) nature, (6) self-development (host-site involvement), (7) stimulation, (8) self-development (personal development), (9) relationship (security), (10) self-actualisation, (11) isolation, (12) nostalgia, (13) romance and (14) recognition. The results indicated that novelty, escape/relax, and relationship motivations are the most important factors in forming travel motivation. The least important factors were recognition, romance and nostalgia. 

Table 3.3 Travel motivation factors ranked by factor mean scores and indicating item importance of mean scores and loadings...

The links between the motivation factors and different levels of travel experience were explored with independent f-tests. The travel experience level was used as the independent variable, and motivation factors as the dependent variables (Table 3.5). 

Table 3.5 Independent f-test, motivation factors by travel experience level groups...

For both phases of the present study, the outcomes point to several common and notable findings. Firstly, the results from both phases of this first study indicated that the motivational dimensions of escape/relax, novelty, relationship, and self-development within the new travel career pattern approach are the most important travel motivation factors. A number of studies have endorsed and reinforced these kind of results. For example, the novelty-seeking motive has received considerable attention in tourism research since it was introduced into the tourism literature by Cohen (1972). It is one of the main forces behind all travel behaviour and has been explored in a number of empirical studies (Bello Etzel, 1985 Cohen, 1972 Crompton, 1979 Dann, 1977,1981). While novelty-seeking is a need to pursue stimulation, escape-seeking has been understood as a need to get away from over-stimulation (Iso-Ahola, 1982). Mannell and Iso-Ahola (1987) theorised that escape from routine responsibilities and stress... 

Important contradictions to the original TCL theory were also obtained. It was found the travel experience group with less experience rated the self-actmlisation and self-development motives as more important. Indeed that group tended to rate most travel motivational factors as more important. Seven out of the nine motivational factors, which were identified to be significantly different in importance, were emphasised more by the people with less travel experience. This finding was consistent with the qualitative results. 

The three most important motivational factors identified in the quantitative results were novelty, escape/relax, and relationship. These factors showed no significant difference in their importance between the two levels of travel experience. Similarly, the interview results also suggested that these three factors, along with self-development, are the main psychological forces driving travel. A preliminary statement on the structure of travel motivation is possible here. There is a strong likelihood that people may have certain dominant and constant travel motivations that act as a common backbone to travel regardless of their travel experience level. In particular,... 

From this first study several achievements can be noted. An extensive list of travel motivation items, which provided a broad coverage of possible motives of travel, was employed. Motivation factors were effectively and clearly identified. Many of the motives were shown to be influenced by the levels of travel experience. Furthermore, the identification of four important motivation factors that persisted through two contrasting levels of experience led to the theoretical possibility that there is a mainframe or backbone in the travel career patterns. 

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