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-disciplines: work psychology and organisational behaviour. The paper first addresses the terminological confusion in the area and … discusses 10 terms often used inter-changably. It then considers whether work psychology has been, or can ever be, neutral or … work behaviour. The central part of the paper offers six criticisms of past and present work psychology (Ethnocentric and …
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It is a puzzle why people often evaluate consequences of choices separately (narrow bracketing) rather than jointly (broad bracketing). We study the hypothesis that a present-biased individual, who faces two tasks, may bracket his goals narrowly for motivational reasons. Goals motivate because...
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Mitarbeiter gehören zu den wichtigsten Ressourcen einer Organisation. Dabei ist der Erfolg einer Organisation besonders von der Leistungsbereitschaft abhängig, welche über die juristisch fixierte Jobbeschreibung hinausgeht. In diesem Zusammenhang liegt seit den 1980er Jahren ein Fokus auf der...
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Organizational behaviour research possesses some endemic problems which constrict its progress. This introduction to Management Revue's special issue on organizational behaviour debates six deficiencies in the current research: an unclear conception of how to understand the 'organizational' in...
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Motivation in Organisations: Searching for a Meaningful Work-Life Balance extends the current motivation models in business education to include motives of human behaviour that have been neglected for decades. It debunks some of the myths about human motivation (self-interest as the dominant...
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We use a simple version of the Psychological Expected Utility Model (Caplin and Leahy, QJE, 2001) to analyze the optimal choice of information accuracy by an individual who is concerned with anticipatory feeling. The individual faces the following trade-off: on the one hand information may lead...
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