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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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Comparison of the Job Satisfaction and Productivity of Telecommuters versus in-House Employees: A Research Note on Work in Progress:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared job satisfaction and productivity for 34 in-house employees and 34 telecommuters performing data-entry and coding, and found that job satisfaction was measured on the Minnesota Job Satisfaction Ques...
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Motivation, pay satisfaction, and job satisfaction of front‐line employees
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the complex relationships between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, pay satisfaction and job satisfaction at the retailer that uses a pay-for-performance plan for front-line employees.
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Intrinsic motivation as a moderator on the relationship between perceived job autonomy and work performance
Anders Dysvik,Bård Kuvaas +1 more
TL;DR: In contrast to the dominating view that perceived job autonomy leads to increased levels of intrinsic motivation and in turn work performance, this paper explored an alternative relationship between job autonomy and employee outcomes.
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Effects of Stressful Life Events on Individual Performance Effectiveness and Work Adjustment Processes Within Organizational Settings: A Research Model
TL;DR: In this paper, a new conceptual model and a series of research propositions that underscore and integrate the etiological significance of stressful life events in one's personal life with stresses originating from one's organizational life are presented.
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Do national levels of individualism and internal locus of control relate to well- being : an ecological level international study
Paul E. Spector,Cary L. Cooper,Juan I. Sanchez,Michael P. O'Driscoll,Kate Sparks,Peggy Bernin,André Büssing,Phil Dewe,Peter M. Hart,Luo Lu,Karen Miller,Lúcio Flávio Renault de Moraes,Gabrielle M. Ostrognay,Milan Pagon,Horea Pitariu,Steven Poelmans,Phanikiran Radhakrishnan,Vesselina Russinova,Vladimir Salamatov,Jesús F. Salgado,Satoru Shima,Oi Ling Siu,Jean Benjamin Stora,Mare Teichmann,Töres Theorell,Peter Vlerick,Mina Westman,Maria Widerszal-Bazyl,Paul T. P. Wong,Shanfa Yu +29 more
TL;DR: Leung et al. as mentioned in this paper compared managers from 24 nations/territories at the ecological or sample mean level, as opposed to the individual participant level, in order to draw more definitive conclusions about nation differences.
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