Work Motivation
Resource type
Book Section
Author/contributor
- Rainey, Hal G. (Author)
Title
Work Motivation
Abstract
Motivation is one of the central topics in the social sciences, and work motivation plays a
similarly central role in organizational behavior (OB). Work motivation has received as much
intensive theoretical development as any topic in OB, and as this chapter will do, OB texts
typically review a standard series of theories that have competed for acceptance among researchers. As with other major concepts, such as power, leadership, and attitude, scholars have exhaustively debated the proper definition of motivation, and have reported thousands of studies bearing
on the topic.
Book Title
Handbook of Organizational Behavior, Revised and Expanded
Edition
2
Publisher
Routledge
Date
2000
ISBN
978-0-429-27136-6
Extra
Num Pages: 24
Citation
Rainey, H. G. (2000). Work Motivation. In Handbook of Organizational Behavior, Revised and Expanded (2nd ed.). Routledge.
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