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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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5. The unfolding model of voluntary turnover and job embeddedness: Foundations for a comprehensive theory of attachment
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Beyond Team Types and Taxonomies: A Dimensional Scaling Conceptualization for Team Description
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Meta-Analysis of the Correlates of Employee Absence
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TL;DR: A quantitative review of employee absence correlates was conducted to address inconsistencies among findings and include the results of studies conducted since the last major review as mentioned in this paper, which indicated that work environment and organization-wide correlates are better predictors of worker absence than psychological or demographic correlates.
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Defining and conceptualizing workplace flexibility
E. Jeffrey Hill,Joseph G. Grzywacz,Sarah M. Allen,Victoria L. Blanchard,Christina Matz-Costa,Sandy Shulkin,Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes +6 more
TL;DR: This work sitsuate workplace flexibility in its theoretical contexts to provide researchers with a clearer understanding of what workplace flexibility is, what its mechanisms of operation are, and why it may be related to other concepts.
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Performance Appraisal, Performance Management and Improving Individual Performance: A Motivational Framework
TL;DR: A motivational framework is proposed as a means of integrating what has been learned and generating proposals for future research that focus on employee's performance improvement.
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