Work motivation in the context of a globalizing economy

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Cover; WORK MOTIVATION IN THE CONTEXT OF A GLOBALIZING ECONOMY; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: Trends Reflected in Work Motivation; I WORK MOTIVATION-THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL; Introduction; 2 Self-set Goals and Self-efficacy as Mediators of Incentives and Personality; 3 Motivation and Information Search on Complex Tasks; 4 Goal Setting and Performance in Working Memory and Short-Term-Memory Tasks; 5 Means Efficacy: External Sources of General and Specific Subjective Efficacy; 6 Increasing Reemployment Through Training in Verbal Self-guidance

7 Personal Initiative (PI): The Theoretical Concept and Empirical Findings8 Feedback-Expectation Discrepancy, Arousal and Locus of Cognition; 9 Self-enhancement and Self-protection: Toward a Theory of Work Motivation; 10 VIE Functions, Self-set Goals, and Performance: An Experiment; 11 The Reflection Theory on Compensation; II THE GROUP LEVEL; Introduction; 12 Motivation in Work Teams; 13 Work Motivation and Performance in Groups; 14 Performance Management for Self-managing Teams and Organizational Control Systems

15 Approaches to Leadership: Toward a Complete Contingency Model of Face-to-Face LeadershipIII THE ORGANIZATIONAL LEVEL; Introduction; 16 P-E Fit and the Attraction-Selection-Attrition Model of Organizational Functioning: Introduction and Overview; 17 Employee-Organizational Relationships in Employment Ads; 18 Creating a Strong, Positive Climate for Technology Implementation: Organizations Should, but Often Don't . . . Why?; 19 Motivation and Transformational Leadership: Some Organizational Context Issues; 20 Temporal Dynamics and Emergent Properties of Organizational Withdrawal Models

21 Some New Organizational Perspectives on Moderators and Mediators in the Stress-Strain Process: Time Urgency, Management, and Worker ControlIV THE CULTURAL LEVEL; Introduction; 22 Different Carrots for Different Rabbits: Effects of Individualism-Collectivism and Power Distance on Work Motivation; 23 Self-actualization versus Collectualization: Implications for Motivation Theories; 24 Understanding Social Motivation From an Interpersonal Perspective: Organizational Face Theory; 25 An Evolutionary Perspective on Change and Stability in Personality, Culture and Organization

26 Surveying the Foundations: Approaches to Measuring Group, Organizational, and National VariationAuthor Index; Subject Index

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