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Work and motivation
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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.Abstract:
Why do people choose the careers they do? What factors cause people to be satisfied with their work? No single work did more to make concepts like motive, goal incentive, and attitude part of the workplace vocabulary. This landmark work, originally published in 1964, integrates the work of hundreds of researchers in individual workplace behavior to explain choice of work, job satisfaction, and job performance. Includes an extensive new introduction that highlights and updates his model for current organization behavior educators and students, as well as professionals who must extract the highest levels of productivity from today's downsized workforces.read more
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Relations between work group characteristics and effectiveness: implications for designing effective work groups
TL;DR: In this paper, five common themes were derived from the literature on effective work groups, and then characteristics representing the themes were related to effectivness criteria, including productivity, employee satisfaction, and manager judgments.
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Review and Conceptual Analysis of the Employee Turnover Process
TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual model is presented that suggests a need to distinguish between satisfaction (present oriented) and attraction/expected utility (future oriented) for both the present role and alternative roles, and a potential mechanism for integrating aggregate-level research findings into an individual-level model of the turnover process.
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Organizational, work, and personal factors in employee turnover and absenteeism.
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Beyond Money Toward an Economy of Well-Being
Ed Diener,Martin E. P. Seligman +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that economic indicators were extremely important in the early stages of economic development, when the fulfillment of basic needs was the main issue and differences in well-being are less frequently due to income, and are more frequentlyDue to factors such as social relationships and enjoyment at work.
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Bounded rationality, ambiguity, and the engineering of choice
TL;DR: In this paper, a student asked whether it was conceivable that the practical procedures for decision-making implicit in rational theories of choice might make actual human decisions worse rather than better, and he asked whether human choice is improved by knowledge of decision theory or by application of various engineering forms of rational choice.