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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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Public service motivation, relational job design, and job satisfaction in local government
TL;DR: The authors examined whether and how a group of Australian local government workers' perceptions of two relational job characteristics (impact on citizens and contact with citizens) influence the relationship between public service motivation (PSM) and job satisfaction.
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Testing the durability of job characteristics as predictors of absenteeism over a six‐year period
Joan R. Rentsch,Robert P. Steel +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors test the relationship between job characteristics and absence over a 6-year period and find that job characteristics continued to correlate significantly with a measure of absence frequency up to 6 years after the job characteristics had been assessed.
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The impact of leadership on small business innovativeness
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of the individual entrepreneur on fostering new product innovation within firms and found evidence to support the idea that small business leaders who are inspirational, who negotiate competitively, and who lead efficacious organizations establish environments that are more likely to yield new product innovations.
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Emotional Competence and Work Performance: The Mediating Effect of Proactivity and the Moderating Effect of Job Autonomy.
TL;DR: In this paper, a model where emotional competence influences work performance through employees' proactive behaviors toward their supervisors was proposed and tested, and results from 196 supervisor-employee pairs supported that emotional competence was positively associated with proactive behaviors.
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Understanding the work of intensive care nurses: a time and motion study.
TL;DR: This study provides baseline evidence on the activities nurses undertake on a daily basis, with only about a quarter of their time not being spent on patient care activities, either directly or indirectly.
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