What makes or motivates a good manager? The question is enormous in scope. Some people might say that a good manager is one who is successful–and by now most business researchers and businesspeople know what motivates people who successfully run their own small businesses. The key to their success has turned out to be what psychologists call the need for achievement, the desire to do something better or more efficiently than it has been done before. Any number of books and articles summarize research studies explaining how the achievement motive is necessary for a person to attain success.
But what has achievement motivation got to do with good management? There is no reason on theoretical grounds why a person who has a strong need to be more ...
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