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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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Social Cognitive Career Theory and Subjective Well-Being in the Context of Work
Robert W. Lent,Steve Brown +1 more
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The job characteristics approach to task design: A critical review.
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Strategy, human resource management and performance: Sharpening line of sight
Paul F. Buller,Glenn M. McEvoy +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a multi-level model illustrating how human resource management practices can effectively align organizational, group and individual factors with the organization's strategy, and propose that such alignment contributes to the creation of human capital and social capital, both of which are necessary to achieve and sustain superior performance.
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Toward a Dual-Process Model of Work-Home Interference:
TL;DR: In this paper, the dual-process model of work-home interference (WHI) is introduced, which claims that job characteristics can be categorized in two broad categories, job demands and job resources, that are differentially related to job-related outcomes and WHI measures.
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Determinants of Job Satisfaction of Federal Government Employees
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose and assess the argument that the job satisfaction of federal government employees is determined primarily by three sets of factors: job characteristics, organizational characteristics, and individual characteristics.
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