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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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Inspiring crowdsourcing communities to create novel solutions: Competition design and the mediating role of trust
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the importance of task and knowledge design dimensions in eliciting levels of motivation leading to creative efforts in crowdsourcing communities and consider the mediating influence of trust in driving knowledge contribution behavior.
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The motivations and experiences of the on-demand mobile workforce
TL;DR: The analysis revealed the main drivers for participating in an on-demand mobile workforce, including desires for monetary compensation and control over schedules and task selection.
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The job characteristics of industrial salespersons: Relationship to motivation and satisfaction.
TL;DR: The job characteristics model of worker motivation has been applied in many organizational settings as discussed by the authors, and an empirical application of this model to the industrial sales position is presented in this art....
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Is entrepreneurial success predictable? An ex-ante analysis of the character-based approach
TL;DR: In this article, the authors empirically analyzed whether the character-based approach, which focuses on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success, and found correlations between the AC data and the questionnaire in one subgroup only.
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A Hierarchical Model of Participatory Decision-Making, Job Autonomy, and Perceived Control
Brian K. Evans,Donald G. Fischer +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors test the plausibility that a hypothetical general control factor influences responding on several measures of perceived job autonomy and participative decision-making at work, including general job autonomy, perceptions of participative climate at work and perceptions of control at work all were related to a second order control factor.
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