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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.
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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.

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A Cross-level Analysis of Organizational Creativity Climate and Perceived Innovation: The Mediating Effect of Work Motivation

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the cross-level relationship between creativity climate and employee-perceived innovation in an Asian work place, i.e., Taiwan, using survey data of 398 employees from different companies of Taiwan, the effect of organizational creativity climate on innovation was explored.
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Meaningful Work and Personal/Social Well-Being Organizational Communication Engages the Meanings of Work

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue for a broadening of organizational communication scholarship through the consideration of meanings of work including meaningful work including job enrichment, work-life balance, career path, leisure, life satisfaction and so forth.
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Effect of Electronic Performance Monitoring on Job Design and Worker Stress: Review of the Literature and Conceptual Model

TL;DR: In this article, an approach to electronic performance monitoring is developed that examines job design and worker stress theories and consequently defines the critical job elements of stress response in an electro-mechanical system.
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Graduate employment and underemployment: opportunity for skill use and career experiences amongst recent business graduates

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Handbook of social psychology

TL;DR: In this paper, Neuberg and Heine discuss the notion of belonging, acceptance, belonging, and belonging in the social world, and discuss the relationship between friendship, membership, status, power, and subordination.
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Development of the Job Diagnostic Survey

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The motivation to work

TL;DR: Motivation and performance are not merely dependent upon environmental needs and external rewards as discussed by the authors, but instead, satisfaction came most often from factors intrinsic to work: achievements, job recognition, and work that was challenging, interesting, and responsible.
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