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Cognitive Elements of Empowerment: An “Interpretive” Model of Intrinsic Task Motivation
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In this article, a cognitive model of empowerment is presented, defined as increased intrinsic task motivation, and subsequent model identifies four cognitions (task assessments) as the basis for worker empowerment: sense of impact, competence, meaningfulness, and choice.Abstract:
This article presents a cognitive model of empowerment. Here, empowerment is defined as increased intrinsic task motivation, and our subsequent model identifies four cognitions (task assessments) as the basis for worker empowerment: sense of impact, competence, meaningfulness, and choice. Adopting an interpretive perspective, we have used the model also to describe cognitive processes through which workers reach these conclusions. Central to the processes we describe are workers' interpretive styles and global beliefs. Both preliminary evidence for the model and general implications for research are discussed.read more
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Self‐determination theory and work motivation
Marylène Gagné,Edward L. Deci +1 more
TL;DR: The authors describes self-determination theory as a theory of work motivation and shows its relevance to theories of organizational behavior, which has received widespread attention in the education, health care, and sport domains.
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Effects of human resource systems on manufacturing performance and turnover
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used an empirical taxonomy identifying two types of human resource systems, "control" and "commitment", to test the strategic human resource proposition that specific combinations of policies and practices are useful in predicting differences in performance and turnover across steel minimills.
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The psychological conditions of meaningfulness, safety and availability and the engagement of the human spirit at work
TL;DR: A study in a U.S. midwestern insurance company explored the determinants and mediating effects of three psychological conditions (meaningfulness, safety and availability) on employees' engagement in their work as discussed by the authors.
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Two Decades of Research and Development in Transformational Leadership
TL;DR: In contrast to the transactional leader who practises contingent reinforcement of followers, the transformational leader inspires, intellectually stimulates, and is individually considerate of them as mentioned in this paper, and contrary to earlier expectations, women leaders tend to be more transformational than their male counterparts.
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Linking Empowering Leadership and Employee Creativity: The Influence of Psychological Empowerment, Intrinsic Motivation, and Creative Process Engagement
Xiaomeng Zhang,Kathryn M. Bartol +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical model linking empowering leadership with creativity via several intervening variables was built and tested, and they found that, as anticipated, empowering leadership positively affected psychological empowerment, which in turn influenced both intrinsic motivation and creative process engagement.
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Edward L. Deci,Richard M. Ryan +1 more
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Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Human Behavior
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