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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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Motivation related to work: A century of progress.
TL;DR: This work organizes the work motivation literature over the last century using a meta-framework that clusters theories, findings, and advances in the field according to their primary focus on motives, traits, and motivation orientations or features of the job, work role, and broader environment.
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The Impact of Personal Resources and Job Crafting Interventions on Work Engagement and Performance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of organizational interventions on work engagement and performance and found that the personal resources intervention had a positive causal effect on the self-ratings of job performance.
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Leading to Make a Difference: A Field Experiment on the Performance Effects of Transformational Leadership, Perceived Social Impact, and Public Service Motivation
TL;DR: This article used a completely randomized true experimental research design to explore the potential of two extra-task job characteristics, that is, beneficiary contact and self-persuasion interventions, to enhance the effects of transformational leadership on public employee performance.
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A review of the literature on employee empowerment
TL;DR: In practice, however, it is a daunting effort to find an exact definition of Employee Empowerment as a concept as mentioned in this paper, and there are hundreds of articles on the topic; some attempt their own definition; others expect that the reader already knows what the concept means.
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The role of job control as a moderator of emotional dissonance and emotional intelligence-outcome relationships.
TL;DR: Empirical intelligence and job control explained significant amounts of the variance in both job satisfaction and organizational commitment.
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