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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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Information Technology Employees in State Government A Study of Affective Organizational Commitment, Job Involvement, and Job Satisfaction
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the affective organizational commitment, job involvement, and job satisfaction of information technology employees in state government and found that role ambiguity, perceived organizational support, leader-member exchange, and task variety are the independent variables that together explain most of the variance in the affectively organizational commitment and job-satisfaction of IT employees working for one state government.
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Human resource management practices and organizational effectiveness: internal fit matters
John E. Delery,Nina Gupta +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a framework suggesting a complex relationship between HRM practices and organizational effectiveness, test this approach empirically in a large sample of US motor carriers, and compare the results to those derived using other approaches prevalent in the strategic HRM literature.
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The future of HR is RH: Respect for humanity at work
TL;DR: Using ecological systems theory, the authors proposed a four-part approach to HRM: short vs. long-term relationships, life-course changes, multiple contexts and success criteria, and permeable and reciprocal influence.
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Cyberloafing and Personality: The Impact of the Big Five Traits and Workplace Situational Factors
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of the Big Five personality factors, as well as the presence of an Internet usage policy and perceived work meaningfulness, on the amount of employee cyber-loafing.
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A Look Back and a Leap Forward: A Review and Synthesis of the Individual Work Performance Literature
TL;DR: The performance of individual work performance has been a central topic for scholars over the past century and there is a mass of research on performance but it is embodied in a variety of disconnected literatures each year.
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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
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