Basic need satisfaction, work motivation, and job performance in an industrial company in Iran
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In this paper, the authors investigated relations among autonomy support, need satisfaction, work motivation and job performance through the application of self-determination theory, and found that autonomy support predicted satisfaction of three psychological needs, which in turn predicted work motivation, and need satisfaction partially mediated these relationships.About:
This article is published in Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences.The article was published on 2010-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 65 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Work motivation & Job satisfaction.read more
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Gamification and the impact of extrinsic motivation on needs satisfaction: Making work fun?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of extrinsic motivation, such as social pressure or internalized guilt, on employees' psychological needs satisfaction and behavioral intention, and found that when intrinsic motivation is internalized (such as through perceived personal value) it can support needs satisfaction, intrinsic motivation, and behavioural intention.
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Effects of Work Motivation and Leadership toward Work Satisfaction and Employee Performance: Evidence from Indonesia
TL;DR: In this article, the authors determined the effect of work motivation and leadership on job satisfaction and its implications on employee performance and found that job satisfaction has the most dominant influence (0.363) towards employee performance.
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Preliminary development of the Adolescent Students' Basic Psychological Needs at School Scale
TL;DR: Preliminary results showed that the new instrument has promising psychometric properties as well as its internal consistency reliability, convergent and divergent validity.
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The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior
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