Motivation, personal

This chapter describes accidents caused by those slips and lapses of attention that even well-trained and well-motivated persons make from time to time. For example, they forget to close a valve or close the wrong valve. They know what they should do, want to do it, and are physically and mentally capable of doing it. But they forget to do it. Exhortation, punishment, or further training will have no effect. We must either accept an occasional error or change the work situation so as to remove the opportunities for error or to make errors less likely. 

The test panel consists of 7-10 tested and motivated persons, usually people from our... 

Not only is communication enhanced during the session but afterwards as well. Once a therapeutically motivated person has experienced the lack of true risk involved in direct and open communication, it canbe practiced withoutthe assistance of MDMA. This ability can not only help resolve existing conflicts but also prevent future ones from occurring due to unexpressed fears or misunderstandings. 

Selection and training of appropriately qualified and motivated persons for participation in analytical panels is essential to effective performance. Individuals participating in panels in which colour judgements are involved should have been screened for colour vision deficiencies using Ishihara charts. However, other tests may be necessary for the optimal performance of certain... 

To motivate persons to comply with treatment or training regimes. 

Management is concerned with people at all levels of the organisation and human behaviour, in particular personal factors such as attitude, perception, motivation, personality, learning and training. Communication brings these various behavioural factors together. 

Research shows that no two people perceive risk in the same way, such perception being based on human factors such as attitude to danger, sensory perception, motivation, personality, past experience and the level of arousal, together with individual skill, knowledge and experience. ... 

Knowledge, Skill, Abilities, Intelligence, Motives, Personality... 

Supervisors are responsible to see that every worker is adequate on the job. Physically, mentally, and emotionally inadequate workers are accident prone. Personal hazards are lack of knowledge, conflict of motives, physical, and mental factors. 

The following section will address six personality traits that may affect human reliability, namely, motivation, risk taking, risk homeostasis, locus of control, emotional control, and type "A" versus type "B" personality. 

It is worth pointing out, however, that personality traits which do not provide people with adequate resources to maintain performance under stress, may compensate by supporting other activities during normal operations. For instance, "externals" may be more cautious than "internals" and take no chances to risk plant safety, while type A personalities may have a greater motivation to progress in their jobs and perfect their skills than type B personalities. Depending on the type of task, some personality traits will produce better performance than others. More research would be needed to develop a better understanding of the relationships between types of task and preferable personality styles. 

Supporting the mentee through organizational and personal change - for the mentee, this can be a difficult and even painful experience involving the discarding of many well-established mindsets and behaviours a mentor s support is very much needed to maintain direction and motivation. 

There is a large variety of motivations and strategies for persons and woiks collected here under this heading. The effort of making more effieient the eomputational algorithms, extending thus the area of material and physieal models for whieh the report beeomes satisfactory and quite exhaustive, has produced results ofparamount importanee. 

We at Sandia have always had educational outreach programs. Until several years ago, these programs were relatively small. Then Admiral Watkins issued a Department of Energy (DOE) directive We must expand our involvement in science education to inspire the youth of America to either enter, or feel more comfortable in, the fields of math, science, and engineering. With our labs and facilities, we are uniquely well positioned to provide major assistance in strengthening science and engineering motivation and education, making it come alive for the main body of students who too often fear these disciplines or who cannot relate to them. I intend to lead this effort personally. (7)... 

Given the same goals and resources, two equally qualified individuals often end up with very different degrees of success. To some extent, the different outcomes are attributable to the relative levels of motivation. The personal... 

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