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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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Analysing the job characteristics model: new support from a cross-section of establishments
TL;DR: The authors evaluate the empirical relevance of the Job Characteristics Model of Hackman and Oldham in the modern organizational environment using unique, nationally representative data from a survey of British establishments and find the results for task variety are stronger for the performance-related outcomes than for worker satisfaction.
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Social influences on judgments about tasks
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TL;DR: In this article, the effects of the awareness of other workers' attitudes on individuals' judgments of the motivating potential of tasks were studied in a laboratory setting, and it was found that subjects' task judgments were significantly influenced by the attitudes of others workers as well as by objective task differences.
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Feedback and management accounting: A review of research into behavioural consequences
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Citizen science and sustainability transitions
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss how an integration of both views can allow citizen science to support complex sustainability transitions in areas such as renewable energy, public health, or environmental conservation, and identify three pathways through which such impacts can occur: Problem identification and agenda setting; resource mobilization; and facilitating socio-technical coevolution.
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The impact of Human Resource Management on State Government IT Employee Turnover Intentions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the impact of human resource management on state government IT employee turnover intentions and found that promotion and adva- cation were important factors for IT employees' turnover intentions.
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