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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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200 Powerful Positive Affirmations and 6 Simple Tips to Put Them to Work (For YOU!)

200 Powerful Positive Affirmations and 6 Simple Tips to Put Them to Work (For YOU!), contains more than 200 uplifting affirmations to replace the automatic negative thoughts most people’s days are full of. This collection includes author Andy Grant’s personal favorites–the ones that helped him overcome years of pessimistic thinking, depression, and suicidal thoughts. The affirmations are broken down into six categories for easy reference: All-Purpose Affirmations Abundance/Wealth Affirmations Career/Success Affirmations Growth/Spirituality Affirmations Health/Wellbeing Affirmations Relationship/Love (self and others) Affirmations Beyond a collection of positive affirmations, this book shares six easy-to-apply tips that Andy used in his personal turnaround, including; Freestyling, Rituals and many suggestions for creating Time for your affirmations. Plus there are Super Chargers such as the power of “I AM” and Mirror Work.

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Leading Self-Directed Work Teams

A new edition of the book that lead the self-directed work teams revolution. Leading Self-Directed Work Teams is one of the best-selling books on teams ever published. Now, the perfect guide for any team leader has been revised and expanded to reflect the new realities of team-based organizations. By explaining how team leaders differ from conventional supervisors, this informative volume which is based on the author’s successful seminars and workshops is especially useful for those managers who move from hierarchical to participatory structures.

This edition feature more practical examples and techniques than in the previous edition, new research, dozens of tips and checklists, case studies, and valuable training exercises. It has been used and praised by experts at Motorola, M.I.T., AT&T and many other organizations.

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Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

Can working parents in America—or anywhere—ever find true leisure time?

According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true leisure is “that place in which we realize our humanity.” If that’s true, argues Brigid Schulte, then we’re doing dangerously little realizing of our humanity. In Overwhelmed, Schulte, a staff writer for The Washington Post, asks: Are our brains, our partners, our culture, and our bosses making it impossible for us to experience anything but “contaminated time”?

Schulte first asked this question in a 2010 feature for The Washington Post Magazine: “How did researchers compile this statistic that said we were rolling in leisure—over four hours a day? Did any of us feel that we actually had downtime? Was there anything useful in their research—anything we could do?”

Overwhelmed is a map of the stresses that have ripped our leisure to shreds, and a look at how to put the pieces back together. Schulte speaks to neuroscientists, sociologists, and hundreds of working parents to tease out the factors contributing to our collective sense of being overwhelmed, seeking insights, answers, and inspiration. She investigates progressive offices trying to invent a new kind of workplace; she travels across Europe to get a sense of how other countries accommodate working parents; she finds younger couples who claim to have figured out an ideal division of chores, childcare, and meaningful paid work. Overwhelmed is the story of what she found out.

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Great Work: How to Make a Difference People Love

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Great work lives inside all of us.

The question is: Do we make the contributions we’re capable of? Is our best work getting out there? Breaking through? Creating a difference the world loves?

We’ve long been told our ability to succeed depends on our IQ, talent, education level, gender, job title, or when and where we were born. Great Work turns that conventional thinking on its head to reveal that innovation can come from anyone, anywhere.

Especially you.

With insights from the largest-ever study of award-winning work, Great Work reveals five practical skills that will help you ideate, innovate, and deliver work that gets noticed and appreciated.

Great Work is filled with stories of real people in real jobs who did what was asked and then added something extra–a personal touch all their own–to deliver better-than-asked-for results. Their stories will inspire you to write your own page in the book of human progress.

PRAISE FOR GREAT WORK

“Great Work has me believing anyone can deliver a difference. I predict that ‘making a difference people love’ will embed itself in our lexicon for decades to come. — STEPHEN M. R. COVEY, AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLER THE SPEED OF TRUST

“I recommend it to everyone, from every background, who has dreams of accomplishing great work.” — BARBARA CORCORAN, REAL ESTATE MOGUL, “SHARK” ON ABC’S SHARK TANK

“We all know difference makers who, in small ways, make a profound impact on how we work and live. This book helps us celebrate them.” — TOM POST, MANAGING EDITOR, FORBES MEDIA

“Great Work is a great work. It educates, inspires, and offers specific tools any employee or leader can use.” — DAVE ULRICH, PROFESSOR, ROSS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN; PARTNER, THE RBL GROUP

“It takes passion, risk, and foresight to think beyond the status quo and see problems as opportunities. This book is inspiration for doing exactly that.” — KARIM RASHID, INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED DESIGNER

“Outstanding! A must read. Great Work will give you a whole new toolkit for success.” — LARRY KING, LEGENDARY INTERNATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION BROADCASTER

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Work Motivation: History, Theory, Research, and Practice

This book provides a unique behavioral science framework for motivating employees in organizational settings. Drawing upon his experiences as a staff psychologist and consultant, Gary Latham writes in a “mentor voice” that is highly personal and rich in examples. The book includes anecdotes about the major thought leaders in the field of motivation, together with behind-the-scenes accounts of research and the researchers. It offers a chronological review of the field, and a taxonomy for the study and practice of motivation. Controversies of theoretical and practical significance such as the importance of money, the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance, and the distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation are discussed.

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Work and Motivation

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.

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Motivation and Leadership At Work

Intended to be of use for upper-level and graduate courses offered either in management or psychology departments, this work provides an analysis of major contemporary theories, research and applications in the area of motivation and work behaviour. As in previous editions, this volume introduces the core topics, reviews several prominent theories, discusses specific topics and concludes with a summary. Topics new to this edition include cross-cultural influences, “high involvement” management and learning organizations.

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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

The future of business, work, and the economy in a digital world. In recent years, computers have learned to diagnose diseases, drive cars, write clean prose, and win at Jeopardy!. Advances like these have created unprecedented economic bounty, but in their wake median income has stagnated and the share of the population with jobs has fallen. MIT’s Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee reveal the technological forces driving this reinvention of our economy and chart a path toward future prosperity. Businesses and individuals, they argue, must learn to race with machines. Drawing on years of research, Brynjolfsson and McAfee identify the best strategies and policies for doing so. These include honing the ability to mix and match different technological resources and designing new collaborations that pair brute processing power with human ingenuity. A fundamentally optimistic book, The Second Machine Age will radically alter how we think about issues of technological, societal, and economic progress.