Problem Based Learning

Motivation: References for Investigation

Biz/ed has provided the following references for investigation to help you research the problem. These are suggestions only and are not the only sources you may wish to use; indeed, you are not obliged to use any of them!

Web sites

• Biz/ed Presentations:
  • Business Communication (http://www.bized.co.uk/educators/16-19/business/hrm/presentation/buscomm.ppt)
  • Human Resource Management (http://www.bized.co.uk/educators/16-19/business/hrm/presentation/critical.ppt)
  • Leadership Types (http://www.bized.co.uk/educators/16-19/business/hrm/presentation/leadertypes.ppt)
  • Motivation (http://www.bized.co.uk/educators/16-19/business/hrm/presentation/motivation.ppt)
• Biz/ed 'In the News' articles:
  • Human Resource Management (http://www.bized.co.uk/cgi-bin/chron/chron.pl?id=2756)
  • Motivation (http://www.bized.co.uk/cgi-bin/chron/chron.pl?id=2669)
• Motivating your staff - BBC Working Lunch article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/working_lunch/2988186.stm)
• Employee Motivation: Theory and practice (http://www.accel-team.com/motivation/index.html)
• How engaged are British employees? - CIPD Survey(http://www.cipd.co.uk/subjects/empreltns/general/_hwngdbremp.htm?IsSrchRes=1)
• Research Archive - access to the Happiness at Work Index and 'A Little More Conversation', from CHA(http://www.chapr.co.uk/research/index.html)
• The Happiness at Work Index [PDF, 350KB] (http://www.chapr.co.uk/research/Happiness%20Index%20Report%202007%20(Final).pdf)
• A Little More Conversation - CHA Report on communications [PDF, 88 KB] (http://www.chapr.co.uk/research/cha-report05.pdf)
• Motivation 123 - offering motivation kits (http://www.motivation123.com/)
• Seven rules of motivation (http://www.motivation-tools.com/elements/seven_rules.htm)
• Top ten ways to be happy at work (http://humanresources.about.com/od/success/tp/happy_work.htm)
• Motivational theory - from Business Balls (http://www.businessballs.com/motivation.htm)
• Motivation - slide show (http://choo.fis.utoronto.ca/FIS/Courses/LIS1230/LIS1230sharma/motive1.htm)
• Motivation - information from Changing Minds(http://changingminds.org/explanations/motivation/motivation.htm)
• How to motivate people to make things happen - an alternative theory(http://www.globalchange.com/motivation.htm)
• What's Your Motivation Style? (http://www.agelesslearner.com/assess/motivationstyle.html)
• Team Motivation - from teambuildinginc.com (http://www.teambuildinginc.com/article_teammotivation.htm)
• A Theory of Human Motivation - Maslow's 1943 paper (http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Maslow/motivation.htm)
• Why employees are losing motivation - from Harvard Business School(http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/5289.html)
• Common Myths About Employee Motivation - from the Free Management Library (http://www.managementhelp.org/guiding/motivate/basics.htm)
• Management Styles and Motivation - from Business Bureau (http://www.businessbureau-uk.co.uk/growing_business/employee_relations/motivation.htm)

Books

• Marcouse, I. et al. (2003) Business Studies (2nd Edition). Oxford, Hodder & Stoughton
• Price, A. (2003) Human Resource Management in a Business Context (2nd Revised Edition). London, Thomson Learning
• Beardwell, I, Holden, L. and Claydon, T. (2004). Human Resource Management (4th Edition) London, FT Prentice Hall
• Bolchover, D. (2005) The Living Dead: Switched Off, Zoned Out - The Shocking Truth About Office Life. Oxford, Capstone Publishing Limited
• 'Merrily on High' - 28th December 2006 article from People Management magazine from the Chartered Institution of Personnel and Development (CIPD)