Motivation at Work: Assessing Motivation Factors in Chinese Family Business

Family business is a kind of emerging business style in China. Because some of Chinese managers blindly or entirely imitate western motivation models to encourage Chinese employees’ behavior without considering Chinese situation carefully, these motivation models do not work optimally. The aim of th...

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Main Author: Bai, Chang long
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/22793/
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description Family business is a kind of emerging business style in China. Because some of Chinese managers blindly or entirely imitate western motivation models to encourage Chinese employees’ behavior without considering Chinese situation carefully, these motivation models do not work optimally. The aim of this dissertation is to find out which motivator is the most effectiveness for improving employees’ behaviors in Chinese family business. Firstly, this dissertation offered the literature review which aimed to let readers understand more clearly about the background of this topic. Secondly, through sending questionnaire, lots of primary data were collected from a Chinese family business. Then the author used SPSS to analyze the data and found out ‘the feeling of fairness’ was the most effectiveness motivator to Chinese employees. Based on this result, this dissertation also illustrated both theoretical and practical implication in final part. Its purpose was to offer a suggestion for general Chinese family business to satisfy their employees’ feeling of fairness.
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spelling nottingham-227932018-01-23T12:24:51Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/22793/ Motivation at Work: Assessing Motivation Factors in Chinese Family Business Bai, Chang long Family business is a kind of emerging business style in China. Because some of Chinese managers blindly or entirely imitate western motivation models to encourage Chinese employees’ behavior without considering Chinese situation carefully, these motivation models do not work optimally. The aim of this dissertation is to find out which motivator is the most effectiveness for improving employees’ behaviors in Chinese family business. Firstly, this dissertation offered the literature review which aimed to let readers understand more clearly about the background of this topic. Secondly, through sending questionnaire, lots of primary data were collected from a Chinese family business. Then the author used SPSS to analyze the data and found out ‘the feeling of fairness’ was the most effectiveness motivator to Chinese employees. Based on this result, this dissertation also illustrated both theoretical and practical implication in final part. Its purpose was to offer a suggestion for general Chinese family business to satisfy their employees’ feeling of fairness. 2009-09-02 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/22793/1/dissertation_new.pdf Bai, Chang long (2009) Motivation at Work: Assessing Motivation Factors in Chinese Family Business. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished)
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Motivation at Work: Assessing Motivation Factors in Chinese Family Business
title Motivation at Work: Assessing Motivation Factors in Chinese Family Business
title_full Motivation at Work: Assessing Motivation Factors in Chinese Family Business
title_fullStr Motivation at Work: Assessing Motivation Factors in Chinese Family Business
title_full_unstemmed Motivation at Work: Assessing Motivation Factors in Chinese Family Business
title_short Motivation at Work: Assessing Motivation Factors in Chinese Family Business
title_sort motivation at work: assessing motivation factors in chinese family business
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/22793/