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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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Can Empowering Leaders Affect Subordinates’ Well-Being and Careers Because They Encourage Subordinates’ Job Crafting Behaviors?
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of empowering leadership on employees' well-being and career outcomes through their job crafting behaviors over three time points during a 2-month period.
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Individual and contextual determinants of innovative work behaviour: Proactive goal generation matters
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the extent to which proactive goal generation is a self-regulatory mechanism that explains how individual and contextual factors influence employee innovative work behavior, and they found that envisioning and planning mediated the positive impact of LGO, psychological climate for innovation, and task variety on innovative behaviour.
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Email overload: Exploring the moderating role of the perception of email as a 'business critical' tool
TL;DR: The results suggest that without a clearly stated code of email practice within an organisation, there are likely to be large variations in what is perceived as ' business-critical' email and, as a result, a substantial amount of email generated within the organisation may not be 'business-critical', potentially increasing the level of 'email-overload' experienced by individuals inside the organisation.
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The effect of motivation on shoulder-muscle tension in attention-demanding tasks.
TL;DR: Motivation is evaluated as a task-related factor causing the development of psychologically mediated ('psychogenic') shoulder-muscle tension in four separate experiments using a visual display unit based complex reaction-time task.
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Identity and Well-Being in Sensemaking About Retention and Turnover
TL;DR: In this article, a sense-making framework was used to explore the why for employees of quitting or staying at an employing organization, in order to add a new layer to our understanding of retention and turnover.
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