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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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The Effects of Supervisor and Subordinate Age on Objective Performance and Subjective Performance Ratings
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of age on subjective and objective performance ratings of sales representatives and their supervisors were examined in a field study covering the period from 1980 through 1986, and the results revealed that older employees performed better according to objective measures as well as on subjective performance ratings.
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Norms for the job diagnostic survey
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide normative data for the Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS) and show that the JDS measures vary significantly with many of the aforementioned properties, including job and organizational properties.
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Perceived job autonomy and turnover intention – The moderating role of perceived supervisor support
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Why and when does ethical leadership evoke unethical follower behavior
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used multilevel path analysis in MPlus to test the hypotheses, which allows for simultaneous estimation of different regression equations and for testing the significance of indirect effects.
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Understanding Employee Engagement in the Public Sector The Role of Immediate Supervisor, Perceived Organizational Support, and Learning Opportunities
Myung H. Jin,Bruce D. McDonald +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the mediating role of perceived organizational support in the link between supervisor support and employee engagement is investigated, and how this mediating effect might be moderated by learning opportunities in the job is also considered.
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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.