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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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Work redesign: Eight obstacles and opportunities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors outline eight obstacles to work redesign: (1) influences on multiple outcomes, (2) trade-offs between different approaches, (3) choosing appropriate units of analysis, (4) difficulty in predicting the nature of the job, complications from individual differences, job enlargement occurring without job enrichment, creating new jobs as part of growth or downsizing, and (5) differences between longterm and short-term effects.
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Using social identity theory to explain the job satisfaction of public sector employees
Yvonne Brunetto,Rod Farr-Wharton +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report findings about what factors affect the job satisfaction of one group of public sector employees and second, uses social identity theory to explain the results, finding that working with colleagues enhances job satisfaction.
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A review of research on the job characteristics model and the attendant job diagnostic survey
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the validity of the Job Characteristics Model (Hackman & Oldham, 1980) by reviewing relevant studies of the model and found that the dimensionality of the job characteristics is best represented by the five-factor solution as proposed by the model.
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The Influence of Social and Work Exchange Relationships on Organizational Citizenship Behavior
TL;DR: In this article, a theory for the situational antecedents of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) that includes economic, work, and social exchange relationships is developed, tested using structural equations.
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Workplace spirituality, mindfulness meditation, and work engagement
TL;DR: In this article, the authors extended the findings of Petchsawang and Duchon (2012) in examining the relationships among mindfulness meditation, workplace spirituality, and work engagement in an eastern context.
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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
TL;DR: The Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS) as discussed by the authors was developed to diagnose existing jobs to determine if (and how) they might be redesigned to improve employee motivation and productivity, and to evaluate the effects of job changes on employees.
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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.