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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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Capturing autonomy, competence, and relatedness at work: Construction and initial validation of the Work-related Basic Need Satisfaction scale
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed and validated a Work-related Basic Need Satisfaction Scale (W-BNS) to assess the satisfaction of the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness.
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A Dimensional Analysis of the Relationship between Psychological Empowerment and Effectiveness Satisfaction, and Strain
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the contribution of each of the four dimensions in Thomas and Velthouse's (1990) multidimensional conceptualization of psychological empowerment in predicting three expected outcomes of empowerment: effectiveness, work satisfaction, and job-related strain.
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Autonomy as a moderator of the relationships between the Big Five personality dimensions and job performance.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the moderating role of autonomy on the relationship between the Big Five personality dimensions and supervisor ratings of job performance and found that conscientiousness and extraversion were significantly related to job performance.
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Personality, context, and resistance to organizational change
TL;DR: In this paper, a model of resistance to organizational change was proposed and tested, where resistance was conceptualized as a multifaceted construct and relationships among resistance components and employees' personalities, the organizational context, and several work-related outcomes were examined.
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Measuring Meaningful Work The Work and Meaning Inventory (WAMI)
TL;DR: The authors have attracted diverse ideas about meaningful work (MW), accompanied by an equally disparate collection of ways of assessing the work that is meaningful and meaningful. But, as they point out, many people desire work that they believe is meaningful.
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