The Importance and Influence of labor Motivation on the Institutionalization of Formal and Informal labor practices
(Case of Georgia and Germany)
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https://doi.org/10.52340/isj.2024.27.04Keywords:
labour practices, Informal labour, Formal labour, Work MotivationAbstract
Market process-oriented reforms in Georgia at the beginning of the 90s intensified the acuteness of the problem of adapting the population to drastic changes in the sphere of labour. As a result of this new types of social-economic behaviour not practised before emerged in the social-economic spheres. For the analyses of adaptation models in the sphere of labour developed in Georgia, it is important to compare them to models existing in countries with a well-formed market system, such as Germany. Unlike Germany, labour relations in Georgia become an object of a clash of private interests and employees start to unite under clan principles. What is being developed is not a jural state but a conglomerate of small communities, which put group interests and norms and the leader’s authority in the place of public interests. In Georgian collectives, unlike German ones, labour actions of individuals are directed by attractive motivation (or an emotional feeling of complicity with one another), hence in Georgia informal procedures hinder effective labour activity.
Hence, this article attempts to analyse the structure of labour motives of subjects of labour relations as factors affecting formal and informal practices of labour behaviour in Georgia and Germany. It is important to understand what kind of labour motives promote or prevent the spreading of informal labour practice; which social conditions influence the formation of such motives in German and Georgian labourers; how labour motivation influences forms of integration in the society; which forms of labour activity are encouraged by the society and why; which models of labour activity are formed in Georgia and Germany based on different labour motives. Problems connected with labour motivation are of current importance in Georgia. The sociological research was based mainly on qualitative research methods. Several research methods have been used: analysis of theories, interviews, empirical sociological research, etc.
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