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Toward a theory of task motivation and incentives
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In this paper, the authors summarized and integrated research concerned with a long-neglected topic in psychology: the relationship between conscious goals and intentions and task performance, and concluded that any adequate theory of task motivation must take account of the individual's conscious intentions and intentions.About:
This article is published in Organizational Behavior and Human Performance.The article was published on 1968-05-01. It has received 2264 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Task analysis & Task (project management).read more
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Psychological Conditions of Personal Engagement and Disengagement at Work
TL;DR: This article found that people can use varying degrees of their selves, physically, cognitively, and emotionally, in work role performances, which has implications for both their performance and their wellbeing.
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Self‐determination theory and work motivation
Marylène Gagné,Edward L. Deci +1 more
TL;DR: The authors describes self-determination theory as a theory of work motivation and shows its relevance to theories of organizational behavior, which has received widespread attention in the education, health care, and sport domains.
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The Theory of Reasoned Action: A Meta-Analysis of Past Research with Recommendations for Modifications and Future Research
TL;DR: In this paper, two meta-analyses were conducted to investigate the effectiveness of the Fishbein and Ajzen model in research to date, and strong overall evidence for the predictive utility of the model was found.
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Job satisfaction, organizational commitment, turnover intention, and turnover: Path analyses based on meta-analytic findings.
Robert P. Tett,John P. Meyer +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a meta-analysis of cross-study differences in the contributions of work attitudes to the turnover process led to the estimation of six relations among job satisfaction, organizational commitment, turnover intention/withdrawal cognitions, and turnover turnover using metaanalysis.
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Implementing Entrepreneurial Ideas: The Case for Intention
TL;DR: Entrepreneurial intentions as discussed by the authors are states of mind that direct attention, experience, and action toward a business concept, set the form and direction of organizations at their inception, and subsequent organizational outcomes such as survival, development (including written plans), growth, and change are based on these intentions.
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Work and motivation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors integrate the work of hundreds of researchers in individual workplace behavior to explain choice of work, job satisfaction, and job performance, including motivation, goal incentive, and attitude.
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The Achieving Society
TL;DR: This paper argued that cultural customs and motivations, especially the motivation for achievement, are the major catalysts of economic growth and proposed a plan to accelerate economic growth in developing countries by encouraging and supplementing their achievement motives through mobilizing the greater achievement resources of developed countries.
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The Achieving Society
TL;DR: This article argued that cultural customs and motivations, especially the motivation for achievement, are the major catalysts of economic growth and proposed a plan to accelerate economic growth in developing countries by encouraging and supplementing their achievement motives through mobilizing the greater achievement resources of developed countries.
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The Principles of Scientific Management
TL;DR: The Taylor System as discussed by the authors was developed as a system for increasing productivity in industry, and its principles have been applied to all kinds of large-scale enterprises, including operations with departments and agencies of the federal government.
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On the social psychology of the psychological experiment: With particular reference to demand characteristics and their implications.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on some of the qualities peculiar to psychological experiments and point out that the demand characteristics perceived in any particular experiment will vary with the sophistication, intelligence, and previous experience of each experimental subject.