noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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On the inside, they are often very different people, with different motivations and aspirations, leading different lives.
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Obviously it's going to call for very different motivations , and ways of living, than those we are used to.
great
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Nothing could have provided greater motivation for them.
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And if health and life are not incentive enough, what could possibly provide greater motivation ?
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Two said that the benefit would be greater personal motivation and one hoped to inform and involve their Kirk Session.
high
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Business understands that continual criticism and complaint are not conducive to high motivation , high productivity and high quality.
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The high motivation , skills and adaptability of the new arrivals create social tensions that will be expressed in economic jealousy.
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Candidates must have a high motivation to publish and be prepared for exciting teamwork.
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Economic constraints or limitations can be overcome given a sufficiently high motivation to do well by the individual entrepreneur.
human
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Some political psychologists confront this issue, asking whether there are innate human motivations that affect political behavior.
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We must also remember that human motivation is a very complex matter and monist explanations are rarely adequate.
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You have experienced the variety of human motivations stirred up by fundamental change in organizations.
individual
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To study individual motivation means studying those forces that move a person to behave in a particular way.
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Smith also knew that individual motivation , invention, and innovation inspire an economy to greater prosperity.
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Olson's early work laid particular emphasis on individual behaviour and motivation .
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This implies significant negotiating skills in order to diagnose, manage and reinforce the outcomes of individual motivation .
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He never developed a theory of individual motivation because he was not interested in the individual.
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Much, of course, depends on individual motivation and capacity.
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This requires individual motivation and managerial support, but benefits both the individuals concerned and the service itself.
main
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Getting work ticked was my main motivation .
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For empiricists, the main mechanism of motivation is reinforcement.
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We have always argued that the main motivation for government funding of research should be wealth creation.
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That is one of the main motivations behind my motion.
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The main motivation in signing reprocessing contracts will simply be to offload spent nuclear fuel on to some one else.
major
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It was a major motivation for him, but he also enjoyed canoeing and all outdoor activities.
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Admittedly lust was involved, but the major motivation had been that unexplainable, instinctive emotion called love.
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Indeed, studies of process workers show that their major motivations in employment are money and relationships.
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Humanitarianism has always been one of the major motivations making for socialism.
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Both systems have major consequences for motivation patterns.
personal
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Whatever the complexities of Hobbes's personal motivations , there was no theoretical inconsistency in all of this.
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They recognize that no laws can prevail against the dissolution of the social connections and personal motivations that sustain a civilized polity.
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A different view of assessment however, can lead to considerable benefits in terms of the pupils' sense of value and personal motivation .
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Two said that the benefit would be greater personal motivation and one hoped to inform and involve their Kirk Session.
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This may be a form of behavioural reinforcement operating on the personal motivation of the researcher.
political
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My letter has no political motivation .
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Therefore, when the wise mediator effects a compromise, he is not acting from political motivation .
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Berger's views relate to a specifically political motivation , variously apparent throughout the novel.
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Kerry aides Thursday denied there was any political motivation behind sending it.
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Sometimes the two slide together uncomfortably, with little attempt to differentiate class groupings levels of consciousness or political motivations .
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However, others saw a commercial rather than a political motivation behind the sale.
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That means it is essentially political in motivation .
primary
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The primary motivation was establishing the Javanese-including the Madurese-as masters over the archipelago.
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Although she was a feminist, her primary motivation for joining NoS was the challenge of working on a tabloid.
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Dottoressa Letts, what was your primary motivation in founding the Accademia?
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It would appear that Peavey's primary motivation is business-orientated - to sell as many Peavey products as he can.
real
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It is difficult to say, however, whether the real motivation is social responsibility or vanity.
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Until recently nothing had ever been able to offer me any real motivation .
strong
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I have a strong motivation to help society.
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However, each also needs a strong measure of motivation to provide friendly and responsive customer service.
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This provides still stronger motivation to seek new markets.
■ NOUN
employee
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The question of employee motivation is regarded as key to the future success of the company.
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That concept of product as the focus for employee motivation is not new.
■ VERB
help
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Meeting others in the same position, having a chat with friends about dieting endeavours, these things help to maintain motivation .
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Explaining a failure in this way will help to maintain motivation for change in the client.
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It helps us to understand motivation .
improve
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Proper training of food handlers has a vital role in improving their morale and motivation and ensuring that standards are met.
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This means that users can control the depth, pace and direction of their learning, which in turn can improve motivation .
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And if you do it properly, you should improve staff motivation at the same time.
increase
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Allowing the client to choose in this way can often increase their motivation for the success of the treatment.
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Poverty generally increases the motivation to offend and diminishes resources available for investigation and crime prevention.
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The situation is made more stressful for workers by being given impossibly high targets as an attempt to increase motivation .
lack
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It may lead to lack of motivation .
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People who lack motivation really lack the cause or goal.
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She may lack motivation to increase knowledge and improve skills, and appear uninterested.
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As we saw, the new managers were generally surprised that some of their subordinates lacked ability or motivation .
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If we failed to get the balance right, teachers would lack the necessary motivation to implement our programmes of study.
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Despite a wealth of playing experience, Gray lacked the motivation to lift a struggling side.
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The managers I interviewed appeared to lack commitment to improving motivation , although they identified it as a problem.
need
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Politicians also need to respect the motivations of those who work in the public sector.
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What they need now is motivation , a reason to believe.
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Our needs change so that our motivation will change.
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Vroom added the idea that need fulfillment and motivation was somewhat more complicated than the others had suggested.
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Usually the unwilling merely need motivation , and the unable more training.
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Commercial weight-loss programs are best for people who need external motivation .
provide
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Wishes provide us with motivation and strategy, for without the greed of a wish we would never get started.
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And if health and life are not incentive enough, what could possibly provide greater motivation ?
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This provides still stronger motivation to seek new markets.
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Hard times did not provide the motivation .
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He suggests that Gusfield fails to provide evidence of such motivation in the accounts of movement participants.
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If they are too hard they provide no motivation .
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This provides valuable motivation to continued effort.
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Nothing could have provided greater motivation for them.
understand
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It helps us to understand motivation .
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Try to understand the basic motivations of the people with whom you are working.
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The majority failed to understand the motivation of some of the characters.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Enthusiasm and motivation aren't usually problems for this team.
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Fame was the main motivation for their efforts.
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His motivation for wanting to stay on as manager is to see England as the top team in the world.
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She enjoyed the excitement of her work. Money was not her only motivation .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Aspirations, a sense of how we can realise our potential, give us power and motivation .
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Deviant motivations, for example, are still taken as given; it is conformity rather than deviance that remains problematic.
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It was a major motivation for him, but he also enjoyed canoeing and all outdoor activities.
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Participative management is a very powerful motivation because it enables employees to have some measure of influence and control over work-related activities.
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That motivation disappeared when it was discovered that the universe is expanding.