How Are You Motivated?
In: Probation journal: the journal of community and criminal justice, Band 38, Heft 4, S. 177-180
ISSN: 1741-3079
As many staff feel a creeping unease about the direction their work is taking them and their place in the Service, it is increasingly necessary to establish what commits staff to their job and pushes them to work harder. Steve Walker of Sheffield University Staff Development Unit, formerly a Probation Officer in Greater Manchester, suggests that the ideas of Professor Charles Handy about organisations throw useful light on the psychological contract between staff and the Service during a time of slow but fundamental change in basic motivation.