Going Beyond Motivation to the Power of Volition
Going Beyond Motivation to the Power of Volition
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超越动机，发挥意志的力量
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发表时间：
2003
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
H. Bruch
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作者：
S. Ghoshal;H. Bruch
为什么积极进取的管理者常常无法坚持到底？因为动力不够。动力肤浅且依赖激励，在遇到严重障碍时就会放弃。为了在工作中采取有目的的行动，管理者必须运用更强大的属性，即意志力。最好的人已经做到了，跨越个人卢比孔河，做出深刻的承诺。这是如何发生的，是伦敦商学院和圣加仑大学教授研究的主题。研究人员发现，管理者做出承诺是出于高度个人原因，但五种策略可以帮助企业创造合适的环境。
研究的公司包括康菲石油公司和汉莎航空等大型公司，以及瑞士微型移动系统公司等小型公司。那些实现了看似不可能的目标的管理者都有一个共同点，那就是内心有强烈的奋斗目标。一旦他们的意志力发挥作用，他们就能够应对挫折并坚持下去。
建立持久的组织承诺的最佳方法是自下而上，以个人对具体举措和目标的所有权和承诺为基础。在员工流动、一线创业和持续、不可避免的组织重组的世界中，企业领导者如果希望看到公司采取行动并采取后续行动，就必须做出这种承诺。
Why do motivated managers often fail to follow through? Because motivation is not enough. Superficial and dependent on incentives, motivation gives up in the face of serious obstacles. For purposeful action taking at work, managers must engage a more powerful attribute, their willpower. The best already do, crossing a personal Rubicon to deep commitment. How that happens is the subject of studies by professors from the London Business School and the University of St. Gallen. The researchers find that managers commit for highly individual reasons but that five strategies can help enterprises create the right environment.
The companies studied included large ones such as ConocoPhillips and Lufthansa and small ones such as Micro Mobility Systems of Switzerland. The managers who achieved their apparently impossible goals had in common an intense inner struggle to commit. Once their willpower was engaged, they were able to deal with setbacks and persevere.
The best way to build persistent organizational commitment is bottom-up, on the foundation of personal ownership of and commitment to specific initiatives and goals. In the world of mobile employees, frontline entrepreneurship and constant, unavoidable organizational restructuring, corporate leaders must develop that kind of commitment if they want to see action and follow-through in their companies.