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Syfte &amp; frågeställningar Syftet med vår studie är att undersöka hur motivationsklimatet i Stockholmska fotbollsakademier bedrivs både i teorin och i praktiken. Frågeställningarna lyder enligt följande: I vilket motivationsklimat formar Stockholmska fotbollsakademier sina spelare? Har föreningarna ett utformat strategiarbete för hur de ska bedriva sin akademiverksamhet med fokus på motivationsklimat? Omsätts föreningens strategi för motivationsklimat in i akademins praktiska vardag? Metod För att besvara studiens syfte och frågeställningar har en blandmetodik tillämpats. Achievement Goal Theory (AGT) har använts som teoretiskt ramverk. En semi-strukturerad intervju har genomförts med fyra akademichefer, tillhörande föreningar som återfinns i Svensk elitfotbolls (SEF) akademicertifiering. En induktiv tematisk resultatanalys har använts för att transkribera, koda och kategorisera resultatinnehåll. Enkäten Perceived Motivational Climate in Sport Questionnaire-2 (PMCSQ-2) har använts. Enkäten besvarades av spelare tillhörande någon av de fyra föreningar som akademicheferna representerade. Enkätsvaren har sammanställts och beräknats i programmet Excel. Resultat Motivationsklimatet är huvudsakligen uppgiftsorienterat i kombination med en viss ego-orientering. En kombinerad målorientering anser föreningarna vara den främsta elitförberedande utbildningen. Enligt akademicheferna ökade ett ego-orienterat motivationsklimat ju närmre seniorfotbollen man kommer. Det uppfattas inte av spelarna utifrån deras enkätsvar. Spelarna upplevde i hög grad ett uppgiftsorienterat motivationsklimat. Slutsats Stockholmska fotbollsakademier arbetar främst utifrån ett uppgiftsorienterat motivationsklimat, med ett stort fokus på individuell utveckling. Föreningar och spelare har inte samma uppfattning av ett kombinerat motivationsklimat. Samtliga föreningar saknade enskilda styrdokument för utformningen av akademins motivationsklimat. / <p>Uppsatsen tilldelades stipendiemedel ur Överste och Fru Adolf Johnssons fond 2022.</p>

Due to an impending STEM shortage facing the United States, it is critically important that students of color are recruited to scientific disciplines. This STEM shortage affects agricultural fields, as many agricultural disciplines are scientifically based. There is currently a lack of students of color within agricultural disciplines when compared to the increasingly diverse make-up of the United States. This qualitative study utilizes the path-goal theory of leadership (House, 1971) and reasoned action theory (Fishbein and Azjen, 2010) to examine the perceptions of administrators regarding the barriers that students of color face within colleges of agriculture at 1862 land-grant institutions. Another important purpose of this study is to identify strategies that department heads, deans, and administrators within colleges of agriculture can use to increase the recruitment and retention of students of color. The study utilized phenomenology, as this method focuses on participants' subjective experiences and interpretations of the world. Eighteen participants at 17 institutions were interviewed about their perceptions of diversity, the barriers that students of color face within colleges of agriculture, and strategies for success. The findings of this study reveal that (1) diversity is a multifaceted and evolving concept that varies from individual-to-individual, (2) students of color face barriers to access, (3) successful recruitment and retention strategies for students of color require investments from administrators, and (4) data validates program success. / Ph. D.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:26:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Arnaldo Turuo Ono.pdf: 1092381 bytes, checksum: 63271619bb6e0edcf7ecaae67f95f47b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-03-14 / House s (1971) Path-Goal Theory of Leadership, in spite of the fact that has being largely diffused mainly in USA; in Brazil, however, there is no organizational leadership researches concerning this theory. From that, a scientific investigation with the objective of testing subjacent hypotheses of House s theory was developed. Firstly, a quantitative research was done, with 226 workers, from a Brazilian auto parts company, the majority acting directly at the assembly line. A self-answered questionnaire was applied, in order to apprehend all variables of House s model. Correlation and hierarchical regression analysis were utilized to treat the data. The results demonstrated that none of the relations showed moderation effects and, only strait relations were observed, for instance, the performance variable and directive leader behavior and achievement oriented leader behavior. Subsequently, in order to deeply understand the gotten results, a qualitative research was developed. The data were obtained through deep interviews with 7 individuals of the same company at different hierarchical levels. Those data were analyzed under the light of thematic categorical content analysis technique. A content analysis was utilized to assess the qualitative data analysis. Cultural traits were identified as for instance, paternalism, spectator posture. From the analysis result of the two researches, could conclude that the Brazilian cultural traits would influence the leadership processes, in a way that leaders wouldn t show contingencial characteristics, differently of House s (1971) affirmation. Inferring, therefore, new researches must be done concerning the Brazilian cultural traits in order to validate Houses s theory in the Brazilian organizations context. / A teoria do caminho-meta de House (1971), embora tenha sido bastante difundida principalmente nos EUA, no Brasil, não se encontrou pesquisas em liderança organizacional considerando a teoria. Dessa forma, desenvolveu-se uma investigação científica com a finalidade de testar as hipóteses subjacentes à teoria de House. Inicialmente, foi realizada uma pesquisa quantitativa, com uma amostra de 226 respondentes trabalhadores de uma empresa brasileira do setor de autopeças, a maioria atuando diretamente na linha de produção. Foi aplicado um questionário autopreenchível, para apreender todas as variáveis do modelo de House. Análises de correlação e regressão hierárquica foram utilizadas para tratar os dados. Os resultados obtidos demonstraram que nenhuma relação apresentou efeitos de moderação e, somente, relações diretas foram identificadas, como por exemplo, a variável desempenho e o comportamento diretivo do líder e o comportamento orientado para o resultado do líder. Posteriormente, visando compreender mais profundamente os resultados obtidos, desenvolveu-se uma pesquisa qualitativa. Os dados foram obtidos por meio de entrevistas em profundidade com 7 sujeitos pertencentes à mesma empresa em diferentes posições hierárquicas. Esses dados foram analisados à luz da técnica de análise de conteúdo do tipo categórica temática. Para a análise dos dados qualitativos utilizou-se a técnica de análise de conteúdo. Foram identificados traços culturais, como por exemplo, o paternalismo e a postura de espectador. A partir da análise dos resultados das duas pesquisas, pode-se concluir que os traços culturais brasileiros poderiam influenciar os processos de liderança, fazendo com que os líderes não apresentem características contingenciais, diferentemente do que afirma House (1971), infere-se, portanto, que novas pesquisas devam ser realizadas considerando os traços culturais brasileiros visando validar a teoria de House para o contexto das organizações brasileiras.

Some Nigerian manufacturing organizations suffer significant losses yearly due to a lack of employee commitment and engagement. The purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to gain understanding of the strategies that leaders in the manufacturing industries in Lagos need to know in order to change employee behavior to achieve increased organizational productivity levels. The conceptual framework that grounded the study was the path-goal theory of leadership. Data were collected from semistructured interviews with a purposeful sample consisting of 24 managerial and non-managerial staff members of 2 manufacturing organizations in Nigeria who have had experience in, and training, and education on how to change employee behavior to achieve increased productivity. The interview consisted of open-ended questions. Using Yin's 5 step data analysis process, member checking, and triangulation, 13 themes emerged: motivated employees, productivity, motivation, enabling work environment, transformational leadership style, continuous improvement, unprofitable organization, low capacity utilization, demotivation, dwindling capacity, diversification, capability development, and innovation. Leaders of Nigerian manufacturing organizations may be able to use these emergent themes to develop strategies to increase the productivity of their employees. The potential implications for positive social change stem from Nigerian manufacturing organizational leaders' development of more effective leadership skills, which may contribute to the growth of the Nigerian manufacturing sector and be a viable source of employment creation.

Healthcare leaders who struggle to understand the importance of interactions between patients, staff, and physicians can result in poor patient experience. Healthcare care leaders who understand the importance of patient experience can develop customer service training modules and tutorials to improve organizational outcomes. The purpose of this correlational study was to examine the relationship between staff communication, physician communication, size of the hospital, and patient experience. House's path-goal theory was used to frame the study. Secondary data were collected from hospitals in Northeastern Ohio, that reported patient experience scores through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid's Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey database for the years 2016 and 2017. The results of the multiple linear regression indicated the results were significant, F(5, 144) = 56.822, p <.001, R2 = .652. The findings may provide health care leaders with tools to communicate with staff on how to improve patient experience through improving employee and patient engagement, thereby improving patient experience scores.

Titel: Motivationsskapande ledarskap på distans: En studie utifrån målvägsteorin Nivå: Examensarbete på grundnivå (kandidatexamen) i ämnet företagsekonomi. Författare: Maria Wihlborg och Emilia Wästlund Handledare: Monika Wallmon Datum: 2022 - Juni  Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att utifrån ett ledarperspektiv skapa förståelse för vilka ledarbeteenden och motivationstekniker som svenska ledare inom privat och offentlig sektor använder när distansarbete införts på arbetsplatsen.  Metod: Studien har en kvalitativ utgångspunkt, vilket tar sig i uttryck i 10 semistrukturerade intervjuer. Vidare har studien en deduktiv ansats som grundar sig i målvägsteorin, som är en motivationsteori inom ledarskapsområdet.  Resultat och slutsats: Resultatet av studien visar på att relationen till gruppen är en framstående källa till motivation hos medarbetarna när arbetet sker på distans. Arbetet med att stärka relationen inom gruppen har sker ofta genom att använda kommunikationen som verktyg. Studien fastställer att det framstående ledarbeteendet inom privat sektor är det prestationsorienterade medan det deltagande är vanligast förekommande inom offentlig sektor.  Examensarbetets bidrag: Studien bidrar med ökad kunskap för hur ledare inom privat och offentlig sektor arbetar med motivation när arbetet sker på distans. Den privata sektorns prestationsorienterade ledarbeteende och den offentliga sektorns deltagande ledarbeteende visar på en markant skillnad mellan sektorernas ledarskap. Detta ger en ökad förståelse för hur de olika sektorerna leder organisationen när arbetet varit på distans. Studien har även gett insikter om vilka nytänkande strategier som kan tillämpas på en distanserad arbetsplats för att öka motivationen hos medarbetarna. Några av dessa strategier är att hålla möten utomhus, strukturerad kommunikation samt distansarbetesbingo.  Förslag till fortsatt forskning: En intressant aspekt att undersöka är hur arbetet efter covid-19 pandemin hanterats, vilka lärdomar tar man med sig och vilka kommer rutiner kommer man gå tillbaka till? Utöver detta föreslår vi att man i en framtida studie kan använda sig av samma empiriska material men i stället utgå från motivationsteorin Self Determination Theory. Slutligen föreslår vi att vidare forskning på ämnet skulle kunnat beröra hur upplevelsen av arbetet förändrats när det skalats ner till dess kärna och även huruvida aktiviteten på arbetsmarknaden påverkats till följd av detta.  Nyckelord: Målvägsteorin, Ledarskap, Distansarbete, Motivation, Privat sektor, Offentlig sektor. / Title: Motivational leadership at teleworking: A study based on the path goal theory. Level: Final assignment for Bachelor’s degree in business administration Authors: Maria Wihlborg and Emilia Wästlund Supervisor: Monika Wallmon Date: 2022 - June  Aim: The purpose of this study is to create an understanding from a leadership perspective of the leadership behaviors and motivational techniques that Swedish leaders in the private and public sector use when teleworking is introduced.  Method: The study has a qualitative method, which is expressed by 10 semi-structured interviews. Furthermore, the study has a deductive approach based on the path goal theory, which is a motivation theory in the field of leadership.  Result and conclusion: The results of the study show that the relationship with the group is a prominent source of motivation among employees during teleworking. The work of strengthening the relationship within the group has often been done by using communication as a tool. The study establishes that the prominent leadership behavior in the private sector is the achievement-oriented leadership behavior, while the participative leadership behavior is most common in the public sector.  Contribution of the thesis: The study contributes with increased knowledge of how leaders in the private and public sector work with motivation when the work takes place at a distance. The achievement-oriented leadership behavior of the private sector, and the participative leadership behavior of the public sector show a marked difference between the leaderships of the sectors. This provides an increased understanding of how the various sectors lead the organization when the work has been at a distance. The study has also provided insights into which innovative strategies can be applied in a remote workplace to increase employee motivation. Some of these strategies are outdoor meetings, structured communication and telework bingo.  Suggestions for further research: An interesting aspect to investigate is how the work after the covid-19 pandemic was handled, what lessons do you take with you and what routines will you go back to? In addition to this, we suggest that in a future study one can use the same empirical material but instead start from the motivation theory SDT - Self Determination Theory. Finally, we suggest that further research on the subject could have touched on how the experience of work changed when it was scaled down to its core and whether activity in the labor market was affected as a result.  Keywords: Path goal theory, Leadership, Teleworking, Motivation, Private sector, Public sector.

Titel: Leadership in remote work during the covid-19 pandemic. Level: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration  Author: Sibel Kervanci &amp; Martial Ntungane  Supervisor: Monika Wallmon Date: 2022 - January Aim: The purpose of this work is with the help of path goal theory to investigate how leaders apply their leadership in remote work. Method: This study has used a qualitative method in the form of 9 semi-structured interviews at the same time as a quantitative method in the form of a questionnaire with 9 participants was produced. Conclusion: The result presented through the study has been that the majority of the respondents showed a mixture of the directive and achievement-oriented leadership behavior. The motivation and relationship of the employees has been affected during the pandemic and to remedy this, all leaders have used digital aids. Contribution of the thesis: This study will contribute to an expanded understanding of how leaders in different industries can lead and motivate employees in times of crisis. The study can benefit both leaders and employees, but the main focus is on how leaders should act during remote work. Suggestions for future research: This study is conducted from a leadership perspective, for further research it would be interesting to present a study based on the path goal theory with a focus on from employee perspective. Regarding the goal path theory, we have based this study on the four leadership styles that House (1974) highlights. However, new leadership styles have been developed since then and it would therefore be interesting to include the new leadership styles in future research. / Titel: Ledarskap vid distansarbete under covid-19 pandemin. Nivå: Examensarbete på Grundnivå i företagsekonomi.  Författare: Sibel Kervanci &amp; Martial Ntungane Handledare: Monika Wallmon  Datum: 2022 - Januari  Syfte: Syftet med detta arbete är att med hjälp av målvägsteorin undersöka hur ledare tillämpar sitt ledarskap vid distansarbete. Metod: Denna studie har använt sig av en kvalitativ metod i form av 9 semistrukturerade intervjuer samtidigt som en kvantitativ metod i form av en enkätundersökning med 9 deltagare framställts.   Resultat och Slutsats:  Resultatet som framförts genom studien har varit att majoriteten av respondenterna uppvisat en blandning av det vägledande och prestationsinriktade ledarbeteendet. Motivationen samt relationen hos medarbetarna har påverkats negativt under pandemin och för att åtgärda detta har samtliga ledare använt sig av digitala hjälpmedel.  Examensarbetets bidrag: Denna studie bidrar till en utökad förståelse kring hur ledare inom olika branscher kan gå tillväga för att leda samt motivera medarbetare vid distansarbete. Studien kommer att kunna tas del av ledare och medarbetare. Fokuset riktas främst till hur ledarna bör agera under distansarbete. Förslag till vidare forskning: I denna studie har vi utgått ifrån ett ledarperspektiv, till vidare forskning hade det varit intressant att framföra en liknande studie som utgår ifrån målvägsteorin men med fokus på medarbetarperspektiv för att kunna få en större uppfattning ur deras synvinkel. Utifrån målvägsteorin har vi utgått ifrån de fyra ledarskapsstilarna som House (1974) belyser.  Det har däremot framtagits nya ledarskapsstilar som hade varit intresseväckande att inkludera i framtida forskning.

Creating successful leaders is one of the challenges that social services organizations are facing. Employees may lack essential managerial skills to become productive leaders, and some managers may lack viable succession planning methods for preparing employees for leadership positions. The purpose of this case study was to explore methods that executive managers use to prepare employees for leadership positions. Path-goal theory and transformational leadership represent the conceptual framework that grounded this study. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 10 executive managers in the social services industry within southwest Georgia with experiences and skills specific to implementing successful succession planning. Company archives of corporate reports, government records, and business and management records were used for triangulation. The data were coded and analyzed using a modified van Kaam method. Participants verified the accuracy of the analysis of their responses through member-checking. The findings revealed 4 emergent themes: organizational management, hiring employees that fit the culture, leadership capabilities, and talent management. A recommendation from the study was that executive managers find methods to prepare employees for leadership positions. These findings may contribute to positive social change by identifying methods to prepare employees for leadership positions, thereby generating organizational sustainability, increasing organization revenue, and creating community economic development.

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