Working smarter: the impact of technology on marketer motivation
Participation and Empowerment: An International Journal
ISSN: 1463-4449
Article publication date: 1 May 1999
Abstract
The variables impacting marketers’ motivation to work smarter are examined. These influencing variables are the manager’s venturesomeness, job challenge, effort and skill results, as well as self‐esteem. The model is empirically tested using 273 responses to a questionnaire distributed to marketers using a purchased, national mailing list. The empirical tests were done using a structural equations approach and maximum likelihood estimation. The results indicate that the motivation to work smarter is directly and positively impacted by the manager’s job challenge, effort and skill results, and venturesomeness. The manager’s self‐esteem has positive, indirect impacts on the motivation to work smarter through each of the manager’s venturesomeness, effort and skill results, and job challenge. Based on these results, recommendations on how marketers can be encouraged to work smarter are made.
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Citation
Good, D.J. and Stone, R.W. (1999), "Working smarter: the impact of technology on marketer motivation", Participation and Empowerment: An International Journal, Vol. 7 No. 3, pp. 56-67. https://doi.org/10.1108/14634449910277810
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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