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The Oxford Handbook of Work Engagement, Motivation, and Self-Determination Theory (Oxford Library of Psychology)

Self-determination theory is a theory of human motivation that is being increasingly used by organizations to make strategic HR decisions and train managers. It argues for a focus on the quality of workers’ motivation over quantity. Motivation that is based on meaning and interest is showed to be superior to motivation that is based on pressure and rewards. Work environments that make workers feel competent, autonomous, and related to others foster the right type of motivation, goals, and work values.

The Oxford Handbook of Work Motivation, Engagement, and Self-Determination Theory aims to give current and future organizational researchers ideas for future research using self-determination theory as a framework, and to give practitioners ideas on how to adjust their programs and practices using self-determination theory principles. The book brings together self-determination theory experts and organizational psychology experts to talk about past and future applications of the theory to the field of organizational psychology. The book covers a wide range of topics, including: how to bring about commitment, engagement, and passion in the workplace; how to manage stress, health, emotions and violence at work; how to encourage safe and sustainable behavior in organizations; how factors like attachment styles, self-esteem, person-environment fit, job design, leadership, compensation, and training affect work motivation; and how work-related values and goals are forged by the work environment and affect work outcomes.

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Esquire How to Be a Man: A Handbook of Advice, Inspiration, and Occasional Drinking

Where other than in Esquire would a man learn how to make the perfect Manhattan AND get a guide to nose-hair maintenance? In this age of manscaping,  Instagramming everything you had for dinner, and parents taking kids to bars,  Esquire serves up serious advice in engagingly tongue-in-cheek style on how to be a man. Includes essentials on grooming, manners, work, women, travel, and more.

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The Oxford Handbook of Human Motivation (Oxford Library of Psychology)

Motivation is that which moves us to action. Human motivation is thus a complex issue, as people are moved to action by both their evolved natures and by myriad familial, social and cultural influences. The Oxford Handbook of Human Motivation collects the top theorists and researchers of human motivation into a single volume, capturing the current state-of-the-art in this fast developing field. The book includes theoretical overviews from some of the best-known thinkers in this area, including chapters on Social Learning Theory, Control Theory, Self-determination theory, Terror Management theory, and the Promotion and Prevention perspective. Topical chapters appear on phenomena such as ego-depletion, flow, curiosity, implicit motives, and personal interests. A section specifically highlights goal research, including chapters on goal regulation, achievement goals, the dynamics of choice, unconscious goals and process versus outcome focus. Still other chapters focus on evolutionary and biological underpinnings of motivation, including chapters on cardiovascular dynamics, mood, and neuropsychology. Finally, chapters bring motivation down to earth in reviewing its impact within relationships, and in applied areas such as psychotherapy, work, education, sport, and physical activity. By providing reviews of the most advanced work by the very best scholars in this field, The Oxford Handbook of Human Motivation represents an invaluable resource for both researchers and practitioners, as well as any student of human nature.

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Handbook of Competence and Motivation

This important handbook provides a comprehensive, authoritative review of achievement motivation and establishes the concept of competence as an organizing framework for the field. The editors synthesize diverse perspectives on why and how individuals are motivated in school, work, sports, and other settings. Written by leading investigators, chapters reexamine central constructs in achievement motivation; explore the impact of developmental, contextual, and sociocultural factors; and analyze the role of self-regulatory processes. Focusing on the ways in which achievement is motivated by the desire to experience competence and avoid experiencing incompetence, the volume integrates disparate theories and findings and sets forth a coherent agenda for future research.

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How to Get Out of this World Alive: The Ultimate Self-Empowerment Handbook (Volume 1)

How to Get Out of this World Alive is an unique synthesis of psychology, philosophy, mysticism and metaphysics. It provides practical tools for the reader who wants to be truly alive at all levels. Techniques developed and tested over 30 years are clearly set out to help you shift from making losing choices to winning ones. Life loves you and wants you to evolve. This books tells you how.

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Motivation and Personality: Handbook of Thematic Content Analysis

Motivation and Personality is the first book to be devoted primarily to content analysis systems for assessment of characteristics of the individuals, groups, or historical periods that create verbal materials. Part I discusses general issues including the merits of content analysis and its relation to other contemporary methods of motivation and personality assessment, the determinants of thematic apperception and the use of thematic methods in survey research and for the analysis of archival and naturally-occurring verbal materials. Part II presents 14 different coding manuals, each with an introductory chapter, and Part III deals with methodological considerations and materials for learning how to obtain and code verbal materials. The volume will serve as a handbook for researchers who wish to use content analytic methods for research in personology, experimental psychology, or social science, and also as a reference work providing information about content analytic measures of motives for achievement, affiliation, intimacy, and power, as well as measures of personal causation, conceptual complexity, uncertainty orientation, explanatory style, psychological stances toward the environment, self-definition, and responsibility. The various systems, research regarding the background of the systems, and practice materials are included to create a book that is both reference and handbook.

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Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair

A wise and compassionate exploration of how we can make sense of life’s chaos.

What do we do when life lurches out of balance? How can we reconnect to one other and to what’s sustaining, when evil and catastrophe seem inescapable?

These questions lie at the heart of Stitches, Lamott’s profound follow-up to her New York Times–bestselling Help, Thanks, Wow. In this book Lamott explores how we find meaning and peace in these loud and frantic times; where we start again after personal and public devastation; how we recapture wholeness after loss; and how we locate our true identities in this frazzled age. We begin, Lamott says, by collecting the ripped shreds of our emotional and spiritual fabric and sewing them back together, one stitch at a time.

It’s in these stitches that the quilt of life begins, and embedded in them are strength, warmth, humor, and humanity.
 

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The Best Affirmations Handbook

Why is it everyone knows they should be doing affirmations, but they don’t?

Why is it some people say affirmations just gloss over the negative?

It’s because no-one has ever given you a step-by-step guide on how to do affirmations effectively. Affirmations work. They work for millions of people around the world and they can work for you! They are the foundation for you to get the life you desire and dream about.

In this Handbook, you’ll learn how to say them everyday, all the time. You’ll find out how to identify your dominant thought, how to change your negative thinking, and much more!!

The Best Affirmations Handbook gets results! You can achieve the life of your dreamsif you do your affirmations and take action on them.

Buy the Best Affirmations Handbook and take it with you everywhere. Create your own affirmations habit, and may your life never be the same again!

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Keys to the Spirit World: An Easy To Use Handbook for Contacting Your Spirit Guides

Who are your Spirit Guides?

Keys to the Spirit World does not only cover “who” your Spirit Guides are, but you will also learn “why” you have Spirit Guides.

The Book: What do Spirit Guides look like? How do Spirit Guides communicate? What is it like to receive communications from spirits or Spirit Guides? Chakras and spirit communication 10 Tips for working with spirits and Spirit Guides Communication with Spirit Guides through writing Spirit communication through dreaming Spirit Guide communication meditation 5 Common “blocks” that keep people from developing spirit communicationNot only does “Keys to the Spirit World” teach you what roles Spirit Guides play in your own life, but it also teaches you how to communicate with them yourself.

You will learn how to develop your own communication system with spirits and Spirit Guides, as well as develop an understanding of what they are trying to communicate with you right now! Spirit Guides are always trying to communicate with you; many times you just do not have a complete understanding of how this communication system works. There are many forms of spirit communication and it is important for you to find out what particular system works best for you. This will allow you to communicate with your Spirit Guides most effectively.