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Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Human Behavior

Karen A. Miller, +2 more
- 01 Mar 1988 - 
- Vol. 17, Iss: 2, pp 253
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This article is published in Contemporary Sociology.The article was published on 1988-03-01. It has received 15849 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Goal theory & Overjustification effect.

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Agency and empowerment : a proposal for internationally comparable indicators

TL;DR: In this article, a short list of internationally comparable indicators of individual agency and empowerment (and corresponding survey questions) is proposed to explore research and policy issues such as the interconnections between empowerment and economic or human development.
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Latent Motivational Change in an Academic Setting: A 3-Year Longitudinal Study

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The Cambridge handbook of age and ageing

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The Downside of Self-Management: A Longitudinal Study of the Effects tf Conflict on Trust, Autonomy, and Task Interdependence in Self-Managing Teams

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Self-interest and other-orientation in organizational behavior: Implications for job performance, prosocial behavior, and personal initiative.

TL;DR: The authors argue that many theories on work behavior assume humans to be either self-interested or to be social in nature with strong other-orientation but that this assumption is empirically invalid and may lead to overly narrow models of work behavior.
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