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Yining Chen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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factors that motivate business faculty to conduct research an Expectancy Theory analysis
The Journal of Education for Business, 2006Co-Authors: Yining Chen, Ashok K Gupta, Leon HoshowerAbstract:In this study, the authors used Expectancy Theory to examine key factors that motivate business faculty to conduct research. The survey results, from 320 faculty members at 10 business schools, showed that faculty members who assign higher importance ratings to both the extrinsic and the intrinsic rewards of research exhibit higher research productivity. Study findings suggest that: (a) untenured faculty members are motivated by extrinsic rewards; (b) tenured faculty members are motivated by intrinsic rewards; (c) research productivity is positively correlated with tenure status and the percentage of work time allocated to research activities and negatively correlated with years in academic employment; (d) there is no relationship between research productivity and academic discipline; and (e) there is no relationship between research productivity and gender.
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student evaluation of teaching effectiveness an assessment of student perception and motivation
Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2003Co-Authors: Yining Chen, Leon HoshowerAbstract:Over the past century, student ratings have steadily continued to take precedence in faculty evaluation systems in North America and Australia, are increasingly reported in Asia and Europe and are attracting considerable attention in the Far East. Since student ratings are the most, if not the only, influential measure of teaching effectiveness, active participation by and meaningful input from students can be critical in the success of such teaching evaluation systems. Nevertheless, very few studies have looked into students' perception of the teaching evaluation system and their motivation to participate. This study employs Expectancy Theory to evaluate some key factors that motivate students to participate in the teaching evaluation process. The results show that students generally consider an improvement in teaching to be the most attractive outcome of a teaching evaluation system. The second most attractive outcome was using teaching evaluations to improve course content and format. Using teaching ev...
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an application of Expectancy Theory for assessing user motivation to utilize an expert system
Journal of Management Information Systems, 1992Co-Authors: Greg F Burton, Yining Chen, Varun Grover, Kathy A StewartAbstract:Abstract:Evaluation of information system success has been the focus of much research. However, most variables such as user satisfaction and system usage can only be measured after system implementation. To predict system success before actual implementation, behavioral theories indicate that it is necessary to evaluate behavioral intention or users’ motivation to use the system. Expectancy Theory is considered one of the most promising models of individual motivation. This study examines the use of Expectancy Theory in explaining the motivation to use an expert system. Data gathered from 95 M.B.A. students in a jUdgmental modeling exercise suggest that the model is a significant predictor of motivation. It also provides insight into the development of such systems. The successful use of this model further suggests that itis appropriate for evaluating and understanding individual motivation to use a system and, subsequently, system success.
Kathy A Stewart - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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an application of Expectancy Theory for assessing user motivation to utilize an expert system
Journal of Management Information Systems, 1992Co-Authors: Greg F Burton, Yining Chen, Varun Grover, Kathy A StewartAbstract:Abstract:Evaluation of information system success has been the focus of much research. However, most variables such as user satisfaction and system usage can only be measured after system implementation. To predict system success before actual implementation, behavioral theories indicate that it is necessary to evaluate behavioral intention or users’ motivation to use the system. Expectancy Theory is considered one of the most promising models of individual motivation. This study examines the use of Expectancy Theory in explaining the motivation to use an expert system. Data gathered from 95 M.B.A. students in a jUdgmental modeling exercise suggest that the model is a significant predictor of motivation. It also provides insight into the development of such systems. The successful use of this model further suggests that itis appropriate for evaluating and understanding individual motivation to use a system and, subsequently, system success.
Adria M Harrell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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an application of Expectancy Theory to explain a manager s intention to use a decision support system
Decision Sciences, 1994Co-Authors: Ke C Snead, Adria M HarrellAbstract:A continuing gap exists between the capabilities of sophisticated computer-based information systems and the extent to which these systems are used by individuals. Studies which have examined the relationship between system utilization and various user, system, implementation, and organizational variables have provided few consistent findings. A new approach to this topic is suggested by a recent study by Davis, Bagozzi, and Warshaw [11], which indicates that individuals' intentions to use a system determine subsequent use. A large body of psychology-based research also supports this relationship between behavioral intentions and subsequent behavior. This study employs Expectancy Theory, which has often been used to examine behavioral intentions, to explain managers' intentions to use a decision support system (DSS). The results imply that the variables of the Expectancy force model are determinants of a manager's behavioral intentions to use a DSS, and the variables of the Expectancy valence model are determinants of the attractiveness of using a DSS to a manager.
Greg F Burton - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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an application of Expectancy Theory for assessing user motivation to utilize an expert system
Journal of Management Information Systems, 1992Co-Authors: Greg F Burton, Yining Chen, Varun Grover, Kathy A StewartAbstract:Abstract:Evaluation of information system success has been the focus of much research. However, most variables such as user satisfaction and system usage can only be measured after system implementation. To predict system success before actual implementation, behavioral theories indicate that it is necessary to evaluate behavioral intention or users’ motivation to use the system. Expectancy Theory is considered one of the most promising models of individual motivation. This study examines the use of Expectancy Theory in explaining the motivation to use an expert system. Data gathered from 95 M.B.A. students in a jUdgmental modeling exercise suggest that the model is a significant predictor of motivation. It also provides insight into the development of such systems. The successful use of this model further suggests that itis appropriate for evaluating and understanding individual motivation to use a system and, subsequently, system success.
Gregory T Smith - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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advancing the Expectancy concept via the interplay between Theory and research
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 2002Co-Authors: Frances K Del Boca, Mark S Goldman, Jack Darkes, Gregory T SmithAbstract:Four papers from a 2001 Research Society on Alcoholism symposium on Expectancy Theory and research are summarized. The symposium contributors describe recent advances in Expectancy Theory and discuss their implications for assessment and for understanding the processes of development and change in the behavioral domain of alcohol use. First, findings are integrated across the diverse domains in which the Expectancy concept has been applied. Second, the implications of Expectancy Theory for the measurement of Expectancy structure and process are examined. Third, research and Theory regarding alcohol Expectancy development and change are presented, with an emphasis on the role of expectancies as mediators of known antecedents of drinking. Finally, an experimental procedure for investigating the causal role of expectancies is described, together with its implications for Theory testing and prevention or intervention programming. Collectively, the symposium contributions demonstrate the utility of an integrated Expectancy Theory for the generation of innovative research operations and new insights regarding behavior development and change. Consistent with the notion of consilience, Expectancy Theory has demonstrated a convergence of findings across different levels of analysis, as well as across different operations, methods, and research designs.
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an application of Expectancy Theory to eating disorders development and validation of measures of eating and dieting expectancies
Psychological Assessment, 1998Co-Authors: Leigh Anne Hohlstein, Gregory T Smith, Jana G AtlasAbstract:Instruments for measuring learned expectations for reinforcement from eating and from dieting and thinness were constructed and validated. Five eating reinforcement expectancies and 1 dieting-thinness reinforcement Expectancy were identified and their factor structure replicated on an independent sample. The Expectancy that dieting and thinness lead to overgeneralized self-improvement characterized bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa patients and correlated with dieting behavior in a general sample. Expectancies for negative reinforcement from eating (e.g., eating helps manage negative affect) characterized bulimic but not anorexic individuals and were correlated with indexes of restraint plus disinhibition in a general sample. Positive reinforcement expectancies (e.g., eating is pleasurable and rewarding) were unrelated to disinhibited eating, but anorexic patients expected significantly less positive reinforcement from eating than did bulimic patients or controls.
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alcohol Expectancy Theory and the identification of high risk adolescents
Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1994Co-Authors: Gregory T Smith, Mark S GoldmanAbstract:Four sets of findings support the Theory that alcohol Expectancy plays a causal-mediational role in teenage problem drinking: (a) Alcohol expectancies correlate with drinking behavior in adults and adolescents who range from low-level social drinkers to alcoholics; (b) expectancies predict the future onset of problem drinking in teenagers, and they have been measured in preadolescent children prior to any drinking experience; (c) expectancies mediate family influences on teen drinking, and they appear to operate in a vicious cycle--high Expectancy leads to more drinking, which in turn leads to higher Expectancy and still more drinking; and (d) experimental manipulation of expectancies can produce significant drinking reductions in heavy-drinking college students. We review the Theory and this evidence and then present data from a 3-year longitudinal study that indicates that Expectancy assessment may contribute to the identification of individual high-risk adolescents before drinking onset.
