Motivation For Entry Research Articles

A qualitative exploration of motivations for entry into the firefighting profession in Trinidad and Tobago

PurposeThis study explored the motivations of individuals who entered the firefighting profession in Trinidad and Tobago in an attempt to gauge their stimulus for entry into the profession. The research was conducted due to the unavailability of literature on the phenomenon under inquiry in the Caribbean, more specifically, Trinidad and Tobago.Design/methodology/approachThis qualitative phenomenological study was conducted using semi-structured interviews with 24 male and female firefighters from the 4 divisions of the Trinidad and Tobago Fire Service (TTFS), namely north, south, central and Tobago divisions, and the personal motivations for entry into the TTFS were explored.FindingsThe findings indicate that motivations for males who entered the firefighting profession were job security, opportunity to assist people, benefits, salary and job stability, while the motivations for females were opportunity to assist people, family, benefits, job security and job stability. Several themes emerged, namely altruism, job security, benefits and job stability.Research limitations/implicationsAs with most studies, this research has limitations. The main limitations were the small sample size of the study’s population and the use of a lone jurisdiction (Trinidad and Tobago) to situate the study. Despite the aforementioned limitations, the study is useful as it appears to be the first of its kind in the Caribbean and thus provides useful insights as well as a starting point for future research. Looking forward, research on motivations to become a firefighter should examine the phenomenon via a more expansive Caribbean lens, as firefighting units are an undeniable feature of the national security landscape in the region.Originality/valueThe current study appears to be the first of its kind in the Caribbean, as voracious searches failed to unearth similar studies.

Deterrent and Motivating Considerations for Entry into the Jamaica Constabulary Force

Over the years, motivation for entry into policing has declined due to internal (methods of recruitment) as well as external factors (public perceptions of police). Motivations for selecting policing as a career in Jamaica include being viewed positively, job stability, personal connections to police officers, providing citizen security and the ability to enforce laws, personal development and self‑improvement, and being an exemplar to others. Deterrents for entry into the police profession in Jamaica include negative perceptions of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), the lengthy recruitment process, and perceptions of police corruption in Jamaica. Motivating factors that influence decisions to enter the JCF can be used as building blocks to attract new recruits, while the deterrent factors can be used to improve the recruitment process and rebrand the image of the JCF so as to make it more attractive to potential police recruits.

Florio® HAEMO: A Longitudinal Survey of Patient Preference, Adherence and Wearable Functionality in Central Europe.

florio® HAEMO is a hemophilia treatment monitoring application (app) offering activity tracking and wearable device connectivity. Its use might support everyday activities for people with hemophilia. The aim of this study was to evaluate user satisfaction, long-term usage and the impact on data entry when pairing a wearable with a hemophilia monitoring app. This is a follow-up of a two-part user survey conducted in Central Europe. People with hemophilia and parents/caregivers of children with hemophilia using florio HAEMO and who completed part one were invited to complete a second online questionnaire at least 4months later. Fifty participants (83.3%) who completed part one of the survey continued to use the florio HAEMO app and completed part two. Of 14 participants who chose to use the app with a wearable, more than half (57.1%) were aged between 13 and 25years. Overall, the results demonstrated that florio HAEMO is very easy or rather easy to use, especially for individuals pairing the app with a wearable. Most people using a wearable indicated that florio HAEMO was very or rather important in bringing certainty to daily activities (85.7%). Notably, 14 of 36 (38.9%) non-wearable users indicated that they would prefer to pair the app with a wearable in the future. Adherence to the florio HAEMO app is maintained over an extended period of use. Pairing the app with a wearable might enable easier access to app features, increase data entry motivation and provide more certainty about daily activities for people with hemophilia.

Reproduction of higher education personnel: motives for entry and retention measures

Introduction. The trends in the reproduction of intellectual resources have a significant development potential worldwide towards the realisation of a proper strategy for increasing the countries’ competitiveness. The stimulating programmes for the development of national universities set a due benchmark for the elaboration and testing of new ways to attract young people to the scientific and educational environment, as well as the formation of professional commitment. The accumulated practice of implementing federal programmes to support science and education raises a question of the outcome and efficiency of measures funded by the state. The aim of the study is to identify the dominant motives of the teaching staff belonging to the “young personnel” category for long-term work in the profession and at the university, as a consequence of the managerial measures applied by the administration. Materials and methods. To diagnose the priorities in the structure of young people’s motives to work in the system of higher education, the data obtained from a survey of young university specialists were used. The survey involved 140 people with different lengths of work experience in higher education. To assess the effectiveness of managerial practices aimed at retaining young specialists, a semi-structured interview with managers who realise the tasks of searching for, attracting, and retaining young people at universities was held. A total of 25 professionals took part in the interviewing: heads of departments, deans and vice-rectors of three Siberian universities. The methods of statistical data processing and assessment of the experts’ opinions coherence (Kendall’s coefficient of concordance) were applied. Results. The dominant motivations for young people to stay in higher education are: the system’s resource and readiness to support initiatives of young teachers–researchers (3.9 p.); regular self-education and professional growth (3.9), lucrative compensation (3.6), and the opportunity to work in priority branches of science (3.4). The higher school associates the transformation of all basic activity processes with staff rejuvenation: change in the format of communicating with stakeholders; intensification of work performance methods, as well as strengthening of intellectual, emotional, and professional resilience of work teams. The output and impact of the measures to stimulate due professional commitment were assessed. A major instrument contributing to high efficiency is represented by communication support measures based on regular feedback and included in individual adaptation and professional development programmes. Conclusion. The management system has to solve the staff rejuvenation problem at two levels: operational and strategic. It is necessary today to seek due options for the implementation of policy decisions and target indicators, and simultaneously to lay the foundations for involving specialists in the future scientific and educational environment. The application of different meaningful content actions in solving a particular task entails the manager’s professional deformation and blurring of the rules of interaction with the subject of labour.

Application of axiologically-oriented classes’ system when teaching agricultural students of different cultures by means of social disciplines

The value orientations of students are of great scientific interest from the point of view of the formation of the educational process in universities and are an important subject of sociological and pedagogical research. The aim of our research is to work out a program of value-oriented lessons, connecting the social disciplines as well as curatorial lessons with united axiological topics, apply it in classes with students, evaluate its effectiveness and efficiency to increase the level of knowledge, strengthen motivation to study the values of intercultural communication, elevate axiological orientations of intercultural communication of students to the rank of norm. Our validation tools comprise hypothesis, analysis, observation, synthesis, simulation, mathematical data treatment, experimental tests, and diagnosis methods. During the implementation of the program, the personal and social value groups of the students of the experimental group were most influenced. A positive result of working with the professional values of intercultural communication can be considered a change in their numerical indicators of significance. The strategic direction of the formation of a university student is the motivation for purposeful entry into the system of values as universal socio-cultural orientations. The emphasis shifts to changing personal qualities, which eventually enhance the activity of the individual in the socioprofessional sphere.

Career entry motivations and teaching perceptions of science preservice teachers: a comparison of trends between Finland and South Korea

ABSTRACT Many countries are facing a shortage of science teacher candidates; thus, it becomes increasingly important to understand science preservice teachers’ (PSTs’) career entry motivations because it plays an important role in attaining and retaining talented science teachers. This study therefore aims to explore and compare science PSTs’ motivations and perceptions about the teaching profession in different contexts and to understand the role of gender and study subjects regarding motivation. Data collected for this study from two countries, Finland and Korea, are analysed using latent mean analyses. According to the results, Korean PSTs indicate a lower level of confidence and satisfaction in their career choice than their Finnish counterparts. Female PSTs, when compared with male PSTs, perceive themselves to have lower levels of ability and interest in teaching and view a science teaching career as more difficult and demanding. Finally, the results show that biology major PSTs possess higher altruistic motivations than those with other science majors. Findings of the current study suggest that (1) science teacher candidates benefit from studying pure science before becoming involved in a teacher training programme, and (2) PSTs’ motivations and perceptions, especially females’ and non-biology PSTs’, need to be carefully monitored.

Measuring Deterrence Motives in Dynamic Oligopoly Games

This paper presents a novel decomposition approach for measuring deterrence motives in dynamic oligopoly games. Our approach yields a formalized, scale-free, and interpretable measure of deterrence motives that informs researchers about the proportion for which deterrence motives account of all entry motives. In addition, the decomposition leads to a set of conditions for counterfactual analysis where hypothetical scenarios with deterrence motives eliminated can be explored. We illustrate the use of our measure and counterfactual by conducting an empirical case study about the dynamics of coffee chain stores in Toronto, Canada. The inferred deterrence motives suggest that a noticeable proportion of entry motives can be attributed to deterrence; it can be as high as 43% for the increasingly dominant coffee chain, Starbucks, in certain types of markets. Finally, counterfactual analysis confirms that deterrence motives are indeed associated with Starbucks’ aggressive presence as the number of its outlets and its market share are markedly lower once these motives are eliminated. This paper was accepted by Matthew Shum, marketing. Supplemental Material: The data files and online appendix are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.4864 .

비행 청소년의 사이버 문제 도박 수준과 사이버 도박 진입 동기 요인의 관계 분석

This study aims at examining the association between gambling motivation factors and cyber problem gambling level toward juvenile delinquents. With the recent development of IT devices, teenagers engage in cyber gambling through various motives such as advertising, friends, and monetary purposes. Accordingly, hierarchical regression analysis was used for juvenile delinquents under probation to analyze entry motivation factors that affect the level of cyber problem gambling. As a result of the analysis, the level of cyber problem gambling increased as juvenile delinquents had a stronger motivation to enter for financial purposes. In addition, through the setting of control variables, it was derived that the more parents tried to intervene strongly in the gambling behavior of juvenile delinquents, the higher the level of cyber problem gambling. Based on this, the motivation for entry affecting the level of cyber problem gambling was analyzed by dividing the group with high and low levels of intervention in parents' child gambling behavior. As a result, the higher the level of parental gambling intervention, the stronger the “friend experience” factor, and the stronger the “monetary purpose” factor in the group with low parental intervention, the higher the level of problem gambling. Besides, cyber problem gambling of juvenile delinquents requires an appropriate resolution of financial problems. It was also confirmed that support and response policies need to be classified by the level of gambling intervention according to the difference in parenting attitudes of parents. Further policy implications will be discussed.

The impact of ‘bursary tourism’ or the desire for a ‘fulfilling, challenging, and emotionally rewarding career’? Career entry motivations and perceptions of preservice teachers from England

AbstractWhy teachers choose their career has been a popular topic of research in many contexts since the introduction of the FIT‐Choice framework by Watt and Richardson in 2007 to study teacher motivations. Although altruistic motivations have been identified as the common driving factor behind preservice teachers' (PSTs') decision to enter the field, there are other motivational factors—such as teaching being a career that fits well with family commitments, or choosing teacher education as a ‘fallback’ option—that are widely reported in different contexts. The introduction of incentives for student teachers in certain subjects has been subject to media criticism in England as promoting ‘bursary tourism’. This study investigates the career entry motivations and teaching perceptions of PSTs from a university that is one of the key teacher education providers in the country, using the FIT‐Choice framework. The paper discusses the findings (N = 115), including validation of the FIT‐Choice scale, collecting data on 12 motivations and six perceptions, along with preliminary findings. It was identified that intrinsic career values were the highest rated motivation, followed by altruistic values such as the desire to make a social contribution and being a part of shaping the future of children and adolescents. Perceived abilities were also rated higher, while personal utility values and task returns— including monetary rewards—were rated very low. While the participants agreed that the job is professionally and emotionally demanding, it was promising to note that they were highly satisfied with their career choice, implicitly indicating their intention to continue in the teaching profession. Gender differences, along with field of study and training pathway differences in motivations and teaching perceptions are also discussed, with practical implications.

The Change of Motives to Become and to be a Party Member. An Empirical Analysis of the German Party Membership Studies 1998, 2009 and 2017

In this paper, the thesis is put forward that selective outcome incentives for party membership gain relevance over time. Two possible mechanisms are identified as the cause of this increase in importance: a supply-side mechanism based on processes of societal change that took place through generational succession and a demand-side mechanism focusing on shifts in the self-image and organizational structure of political parties. The supply-side mechanism should lead to changes in the motives of potential members, whereas the demand-side mechanism alters the incentives potential and current members are exposed to.The empirical analyses are based on the German Party Membership Studies of 1998, 2009 and 2017. These three studies are nationwide representative surveys of the members of the following six parties: Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Christian Social Union (CSU), Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), Free Democratic Party (FDP), Alliance90/The Greens (Bündnis90/Die Grünen), and The Left (Die Linke). Within the German Party Membership Studies, both the motives for joining the party and the current membership motives are surveyed.Empirically, it is shown that there is indeed an increase in the importance of selective outcome membership motives over the period under study. The mechanisms behind this increase in importance are investigated using multivariate Age-Period-Cohort (APC) models based on the cumulated data of the German Party Membership Studies. These analyses are based on a total of nearly 30,000 cases. The results of the APC analyses are largely consistent with the supply-side explanation of the increased importance of selective outcome motives for party entry and membership. The demand-side explanation is only partially confirmed.

“I Can't Really Work Any ‘Normal’ Job:” Disability, Sexual Ableism, and Sex Work

Scholars studying sex work are often guided by compulsory able-bodiedness, asking sex workers for demographic information such as race, gender, and socio-economic position but not about disabilities. In addressing sexual ableism and the reproduction of compulsory able-bodiedness in studies of sex work, I demonstrate how disability is both a factor determining sex work participation and how sex work is a vehicle for disabled workers to explore their sexuality and disrupt tired stereotypes regarding disability and sexuality. In this article, I draw from data from two different studies 1) a five-year mixed-methods study on the erotic webcam industry and 2) an interview-based study on the workplace experiences of transmasculine and non-binary escorts. I use these data to demonstrate the role of disability, especially chronic illness, in individual motivations for entry into sex work. Research on sex work generally relies upon and proffers economically deterministic theories that show how whether, by choice or circumstance, people look to sex work for the same reasons they look for any job in a capitalist system—wages. However, the use of an intersectional frame yields richer results. Here, I also explore the convergence of cissexism and ableism in the lives of disabled trans sex workers, demonstrating how, for the most marginal, sex work is often a lifeline. Further, I examine the implications of these findings for thinking about disability justice movements and pushing back on capitalist, white supremacist, and ableist notions of productivity that have come to govern our lives.

Correlates of lived career calling: The role of perceived calling and organisational cultural identity among police cadets

We examined how and when multiple entry motivation influenced lived calling. Participants were 737 police cadets from Sichuan Province, China (female= 24.42%; sophomore= 65.0%; major in science= 32.7%). The participants completed surveys on entry motivation, perceived calling, lived calling, and organisational cultural identity scales. Following hierarchical regression and bootstrap analysis, the results indicated family expectation was positively associated with perceived calling, whereas college reputation, employment opportunity, and self-improvement negatively predicted perceived calling. Perceived calling played a mediating role in these relationships. Moreover, family expectation weakened the relationship between college reputation, employment opportunity, and self-improvement and perceived calling. Additionally, organisational cultural identity moderated the direct relationship between perceived and lived calling and the indirect effect. These findings revealed the importance of multiple motivations for perceiving career calling.

Motivations to enter the Police Profession in the Caribbean: Evidence from a Cohort of Jamaican Police Recruits

While the topic of motivation to enter policing has proliferated in the Global North, there are limited studies examining recruit’s motivations to enter policing in the Caribbean. As a result, the current effort was designed to analyze the motivations for entering the police profession by gathering data from police recruits in training at the National Police College in Jamaica via standardized, self-administered questionnaires. Data were gathered from one hundred and sixty-one (n=161) police recruits and analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The analyses were based on gender, age, marital status and educational level and sought to determine the motivations of police recruits who entered the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). The findings indicated that the major motivations for entry into policing in Jamaica were: (1) the desire to assist others, (2) the opportunity to further education, and (3) the opportunity to enforce laws. This study provides insights into the motivations behind motivations for entry into policing in Jamaica and is a starting point for future research on motivations to enter the police profession in the Caribbean.
 

Socioeconomic characteristic of street food vending enterprises in the Vhembe district, Limpopo province

The street food business is a crucial indirect driver of the economies of developing countries. It ought not to be ignored as most unemployed people turn to it as their primary means of earning a living to improve their lives. We studied the socioeconomic characteristics of the street food enterprises in the Vhembe district, South Africa. A cross-sectional survey of 511 street vendors (18-75 years old) was conducted. The socioeconomic characteristics of vendors in three towns of the Vhembe district were quantified. Data collected included age, gender, educational level, economic profile, factors influencing entry, foods sold, regulatory issues, and input suppliers. The results highlight the dominance (63.1%) of single middle-aged women (35-44 years old) with high school education and few young adults’ participation (4.1%) in the street food enterprise. About 14% of participants migrated from Zimbabwe to seek employment. Many of them (11.4%) reside in Musina. Lack of opportunities (65%) and financial freedom (90.8%) was the primary motivation for entry into the enterprise. Street food enterprises contributed about 82% of the average household income R6 042.66 made from the enterprise per month. About 50% of the street vendors are affiliated with a local organization. The most commonly cooked foods sold were pap (97.1%) served with chicken (88.8%) or beef (68.3%), with others serving with different vegetables (75.3%). The study recommends the prioritization of the establishment of local representative organizations in collaboration with the authorities to serve as gatekeepers for the sector, such as health checks, enforcing enterprise certification, promoting association for lobbying power and internally settling disputes.

A Comparison of Women’s Motivations to Enter the Police Profession in the Caribbean

Absent from the criminological literature on policing in the Caribbean are studies on female’s motivations to become police officers, studies using female police recruits and studies using a comparative approach. As a result of this gap, data were gathered from female police recruits in Jamaica ( N = 37) and Trinidad and Tobago ( N = 60) in July 2017 via a standardised, self-administered questionnaire in order to determine their motivations for entry into policing. The main motivation for female’s entry into policing in both jurisdictions was job security. Revenge and the desire for power and authority were the least cited motivations for entry into the police profession in both jurisdictions. The importance of females as police officers, study limitations and directions for future research are also discussed.

Revisiting foreign market entry motivations: the case of Korean commercial banks

PurposeThis study examines what motivates firms to go and remain abroad despite uncertain profit potential. In a departure from probing traditional market-seeking, profit-driven motives, the authors explore how domestically driven, sociocultural motivations may shape the foreign market entry decisions of Korean commercial banks (KCBs). The authors argue that, due to the power imbalance between KCBs and their chaebol clients within the historical and cultural contexts of their relationships, KCBs' foreign market entries may depend more on their clients' presence in these markets than on their profit potential.Design/methodology/approachThe authors focus on the foreign market entries of KCBs and their client firms. Using the data of 8 KCBs and their client firms belonging to the 60 business groups (chaebols) of Korea, the authors analyze 6,577 observations involving the dyadic relationship between a KCB and its client firm in 15 host countries from 2005 to 2014.FindingsThe authors find that the number of clients' subsidiaries operating in foreign markets may increase the likelihood of KCBs entering these markets. Moreover, when KCBs earn more domestic profit from client firms, the potential Korean market in the host country is greater, and the institutional distance between the host country and Korea is smaller.Practical implicationsIn addition to the critical role of a bank-centered financing system in advancing a developing country and its firms, the authors’ findings suggest that firms should pay attention to the local diaspora and the institutional distance between the host and home countries in order to manage power-imbalanced relationships and make them sustainable.Originality/valueThe study contributes to the literature on foreign market entry by demonstrating how the home country's sociocultural factors may worsen the power imbalance, thereby pushing firms to make seemingly irrational decisions to go and stay abroad. That is, KCBs' foreign operations may be a way of seeking relational benefits with client firms, which would serve as a source of long-term domestic market profits. The authors’ findings thus highlight the need to consider how sociocultural factors may also shape firms' decision-making in their international business.

Exploring recruits’ motivations to enter policing in Small Island Developing States: The case of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service

Internationally, there is a substantial amount of research on motivations to enter the police profession; however, scant research attention has been paid to the motivations of individuals in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) such as Trinidad and Tobago who choose policing as a career path. As a result, this research was designed to analyze motivations for entering the police profession by gathering data from recruits who had recently entered police academy training in Trinidad and Tobago. The research utilized a quantitative approach with self-administered questionnaires as the data-gathering instrument. Using data collected from 160 police recruits at the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) police academy who were two months into their induction training, this study attempts to answer four questions related to their motivations for entering policing. Statistical analyses of the data included comparisons between groups in the sample (males/females) to determine the existence of competing motivations. The results indicate that job security was the main motivation for entry into the TTPS and that the motivations of male recruits were more altruistic when compared with those of female recruits, which were generally self-serving. Other results and implications for policy are discussed.

Transitioning into TVET schools: An exploration of second career teachers’ entry profiles

In this study, we present and evaluate a way to profile second career teachers in technical and vocational education and training schools that goes beyond the traditional motivational approach. More specifically, by considering multiple entry-related variables (entry motivation, career adaptability, and prior job satisfaction). Analyses based on a mixed methods design (262 prospective and in-service second career teachers for the latent profile analysis and 7 in-service teachers for the multiple case study) revealed three profiles with their own specific characteristics, and predicting different levels of sense of efficacy for teaching. This study confirms the heterogeneity of the population of second career teachers and invites reflection on the implications for their entry into teaching.

Why Did You Become a Police Officer? Entry-Related Motives and Concerns of Women and Men in Policing

As police agencies in the United States suffer declining applications and struggle to recruit women, the National Institute of Justice has identified workforce development as a priority research area. To recruit more effectively, we must understand what attracts people to policing and what deters them. We surveyed officers in two Midwestern police departments ( n = 832) about entry motivations and concerns and examined gender differences. Serve/protect motivations were most important for men and women, though women rated the category significantly higher. Women and non-White officers rated legacy motives higher than did males and White officers. Women reported more concerns overall and scored higher on job demands and acceptance concerns; officers of color also reported more acceptance concerns than White officers. The largest gender differences were associated with gender-related obstacles and stereotypes (e.g., discrimination; being taken seriously; physical demands), indicating recruitment reform necessarily includes improving systemic issues.

Žene poduzetnice u turizmu Republike Hrvatske: izazovi i prilike

U radu se analizira pozicija žena poduzetnica u turizmu, identificiraju motivi ulaska žena u poduzetništvo, kao i izazovi i ograničenja s kojima se suočavaju pri pokretanju posla i tijekom samog poslovanja. Hrvatska ima dugu tradiciju turizma, a upravo kroz turistički sektor ženama se nude velike mogućnosti kreiranja i realizacije poduzetničkih ideja. Spajanjem znanja i vještina u turizmu sa sposobnostima realizacije poslovnih ideja i kreativnog promišljanja kroz poduzetničke aktivnosti, žensko poduzetništvo omogućava ženama kreiranje radnih mjesta i postizanje financijske neovisnosti. Turizam ima nesagledivu sposobnost djelovanja ka uspostavi društva jednakih mogućnosti. Analiza se temelji na dosadašnjim istraživanjima i pokazateljima poslovanja poduzeća u vlasništvu žena u turističkom sektoru u Republici Hrvatskoj. Rezultati istraživanja ukazuju na disproporciju udjela žena u poduzetništvu u turizmu u odnosu na ukupan broj zaposlenih žena u hrvatskom turizmu, te na manju rodnu neravnotežu u poduzetništvu u turističkom sektoru u odnosu na ukupno gospodarstvo.