

Prof. Anja Van den Broeck is werkzaam aan de Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen aan de KU Leuven.
Meer over de auteursThe ABC of Work Motivation
How to Energize Any Organization
Paperback Engels 2024 1e druk 9789048562732Samenvatting
What are the innate and universal ingredients to stimulate employee well-being and performance? This book will help you learn more about these, based on the latest research in motivational science.
Motivation is the key to our lives. Whether at work, at home, at school or on the sports field, we constantly need to find ways to motivate ourselves and those we support. What if, instead of motivational tricks, we could rely on a positive, universal, and surprisingly simple point of view: that of Self-Determination Theory? Validated by science, this approach is based on the principle that people have a natural tendency to invest themselves, but they just need to be psychologically nourished, so they feel autonomous and competent, and belonging in the right place. No stick, carrot or other form of control has the power and quality of this source of energy that allows people to grow and make them happy.
Packed with examples and lists of questions to help us move from theory to practice, this book will change the way we are and the way we do things. Step by step, it explains the principles of Self-Determination Theory and the research that led to their discovery, and invites us to apply them for the greater well-being of ourselves and our colleagues or subordinates.
This book is one of the first to present this analysis that is valued the world over, as witnessed by the four international experts who co-authored it.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Over Hermina Van Coillie
Over Marcus Müller
Inhoudsopgave
Preface 11
1. WHY MOTIVATE ACCORDING TO SELF-DETERMINATION THEORY? 13
1.1 Without motivation there is no behavior 13
1.2 SDT is one of the most influential motivation theories 14
PART 1. THE PRINCIPLES OF SELF-DETERMINATION THEORY
1. THE METATHEORY OF SDT: WHAT YOU THINK IS WHAT YOU GET 21
1.1 Theory X and Y: a different view of people 21
1.2 Your way of thinking has important implications for how you motivate employees 23
1.3 You get what you think 24
1.4 SDT starts from Theory Y 25
2. AUTONOMOUS AND CONTROLLED MOTIVATION: “I WANT TO” VERSUS “I HAVE TO” MAKES A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE 29
2.1 Motivated or not? 29
2.2 Types of motivation 30
3. THE BASIC NEEDS: THE ABC OF MOTIVATION 61
3.1 What are basic needs? 61
3.2 The ABC of motivation 63
3.4 Consequences of fulfilling or not fulfilling the ABC 73
PART 2 TOOLS TO START WORKING WITH SELF-DETERMINATION THEORY
1. PERSONAL DIFFERENCES IN MOTIVATION 81
1.1 Demographic characteristics and personality 82
1.2 Sensitive to pressure? 87
1.3 Mindfulness 90
1.4 Personal intrinsic and extrinsic values 94
1.5 Different cultures 102
2. THE IDEAL SALARY ACCORDING TO SDT 105
2.1 Intrinsic motivation decreases due to rewards: the crowding-out effect 106
2.2 What should you be looking for when giving a reward? 111
3. ABC-PROOF JOB DESIGN 129
3.1 What is job design? 129
3.2 Motivating work contains many job resources or energy resources 131
3.3 Motivating work should contain an acceptable amount of job demands 135
4. CAN COLLEAGUES AND CUSTOMERS ALSO BE MOTIVATING? 149
4.1 Social contact with colleagues 149
4.2 Social contact with customers, clients, students, or patients 156
5. MOTIVATING LEADERSHIP 163
5.1 The motivating power of classic leadership styles 163
5.2 ABC supportive leadership 167
5.3 The importance of communication: the ABC language 180
5.4 ABC support in difficult times: organizational change and work from home 185
Conclusion 189
Annex: THE ECONOMICS OF MOTIVATION 191
1. The importance of investing in people 191
2. Focus both on fixing what is broken and nurturing what has potential to grow 193
3. SDT and ROI 194
Key References 203
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