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Using management motivation techniques to enhance student motivation and self-motivation

The authors teach Business English courses at the Graduate School of Economics and Business, Zagreb University. By learning about economics and business, the authors have realised how useful management motivation strategies and techniques can be for motivating students to study, do research, and prepare for lifelong learning. Management motivation techniques have been very well studied, since they greatly enhance efficiency - the word in the business world. Managers have long been experimenting with different motivational tools, as these can translate into huge financial gains. Research into the motivation of employees started as early as in the first decade of the 19th century, while motivation theories in teaching started some 150 later. Moreover, there is significantly more money in business than in education, which has resulted in a lot more research and experimenting in motivating employees (and managers) than in motivating students (and teachers). Hence this "cross- fertilisation" - using business management techniques and human resource management techniques in education - seems a sound way of improving teaching, particularly in motivating students and developing their self-motivation, so important for lifelong learning (as put in the EC Memorandum on Lifelong Learning, 2000).

motivation ; management techniques ; language course ; business students

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