Greg R. Oldham

TL;DR: In this paper, a model is proposed that specifies the conditions under which individuals will become internally motivated to perform effectively on their jobs, focusing on the interaction among three classes of variables: (a) the psychological states of employees that must be present for internally motivated work behavior to develop; (b) the characteristics of jobs that can create these psychological states; and (c) the attributes of individuals that determine how positively a person will respond to a complex and challenging job.

TL;DR: The Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS) as discussed by the authors was developed to diagnose existing jobs to determine if (and how) they might be redesigned to improve employee motivation and productivity, and to evaluate the effects of job changes on employees.

TL;DR: In this paper, the independent and joint contributions of employees' creativity-relevant personal characteristics and three characteristics of the organizational context were examined, i.e., job complexity, job complexity and suppor...

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors systematically review and integrate empirical research that has examined the personal and contextual characteristics that enhance or stifle employee creativity in the workplace, and discuss possible determinants of employee creativity that have received little research attention.

TL;DR: This article examined relations between creative performance and the extent to which employees received support for creativity from both work (supervisors/coworkers) and non-work (family/friends) sources.