The seven motivational factors were opportunities for promotion, interesting work, respect and recognition, responsibilities and independence, doing something worthwhile, technically competent supervisor, and pay according to ability and competence.
Between those points it's quite a slog, however, because the expectations raised by the breezy prose and the mass-culture references is that we'll get to a new take on the development of audiences and markets: something beyond a competent walk through the isms.
As a longtime (30 years) teacher of writing, I think that I can predict what will happen when high school students are confronted with instructions to write a serious essay in 25 minutes: the several glib ones will write something readable and competent.
The stories go something like this: Competent teachers are dutifully utilizing effective pedagogical methods when parents visit the teachers for an afterschool chat.
It's something they're obviously competent to do, but it's also very controversial, especially within the military.
And, most of all, he showed that he was a smart and competent leader, something that has been absent for the previous eight years.
I am incredibly proud of who my children are as human beings; even prouder that they, unlike me, are doing what they truly love for a living, rather than something they are merely competent doing.
"How do you know when you are competent at something?" (6)—What is the proper word that we mean?
Because when we first started, if you were competent at something you were good and you were safe and you could do it well.
(8)—So if you are competent at something, it means you are able to do that procedure at the required level.
