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Motivation through the Design of Work: Test of a Theory.
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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.About:
This article is published in Organizational Behavior and Human Performance.The article was published on 1976-08-01. It has received 7444 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Job characteristic theory & Job analysis.read more
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Internal service recovery: developing a new construct
David E. Bowen,Robert Johnston +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the concept of internal service recovery, defined as what the organisation does to make internal customers (front-line employees), who have recovered external customers from service failure, feel less frustrated and more confident of their ability to deal with dissatisfied customers in the future.
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Exploring links between polychronicity and well-being from the perspective of person–job fit: Does it matter if you prefer to do only one thing at a time?
Tracy D. Hecht,Natalie J. Allen +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined polychronicity, which refers to an individual's preference for working on many things simultaneously as opposed to one at a time, and found that deficient and excess polychronity supplies are associated with poorer well-being.
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A Field Experimental Test of the Moderating Effects of Growth Need Strength on Productivity
TL;DR: A recent review of the literature on growth need strength (GNS) as a moderator in organizational research, particularly the job characteristics model of work motivation, is reviewed in this paper.
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Views of job satisfaction and dissatisfaction in Australian long‐term care
TL;DR: Content analysis of focus group interview data revealed that job satisfaction was related to workplace flexibility, residents, working within a team environment and dedication to the service of optimal resident care and Dissatisfaction was linked to working with unskilled or inappropriately trained staff.
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A meta-analysis of the antecedents of work–family enrichment
Laurent M. Lapierre,Yanhong Li,Ho Kwong Kwan,Jeffrey H. Greenhaus,Marco S. DiRenzo,Ping Shao +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors meta-analytically examined theoretically derived antecedents of both directions of work-family enrichment (sometimes labeled facilitation or positive spillover), namely, work-Family enrichment and family-work enrichment.
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