This paper analyses detailed 24-hour diary data from the United States to provide evidence on the relationship between workers' effort and well-being while at work. In doing so, we first measure workers' effort in terms of its timing, its nature, and its composition. Second, we link these three...

This paper links detailed 24-hour diary surveys in the United Kingdom (UK) over the last four decades to provide evidence on the increase in work effort in three specific dimensions: timing, nature, and composition. We rule out possible explanations behind these trends, finding that the decrease...

In a cross-sectional study among 623 employees of a higher education institution, we examined the relations between perceived competence, autonomy, relatedness, intrinsic motivation, and productivity during the first lockdown in the spring of 2020. The results indicate that, relative to the...

This research was designed to test and extend the model of emotional dissonance. Previous models of emotional dissonance, such as the Job Demand-Resource (JD-R) and the Stress-Strain-Outcome (SSO) models, are limited in that they do not account for the influences of work and work-family-related...

We investigate the relationship among staff engagement, job complementarities and labour supply in the hospital sector, where excessive turnover of the clinical staff (doctors and nurses) can be detrimental for quality of care. We exploit a unique and rich panel dataset constructed by combining...

Abusive leadership is particularly prevalent in nursing and it can have multiple adverse effects on performance at work. However, little research has examined whether and under what conditions abusive leadership may be detrimental to nurses’ extra-role performance. This cross-sectional study...

Asbtract Purpose the main objective of this article is to check whether the relationship between corporate social responsibility activities and employee commitment is mediated by the existence of two other attitudinal variables of workers: intrinsic motivation and trust towards the organisation....

Purpose - This paper aims to study followers’ proactive personality (PP) as a personal resource in moderating the hindering impact of exploitative leadership (EL) on followers’ job strain (JS). Design/methodology/approach - Self-report data on EL, JS and PP were obtained from 113 working...

This paper uses a large sample of employees from 35 European countries to study the direct and indirect effects of ICT use on burnout and work engagement as two opposite poles of employee psychological health, where the former comprises the three dimensions of exhaustion, cynicism and...

This paper presents new evidence from the NLSY on the importance of meritocracy in American society. In it, we find that general intelligence, or g -- a measure of cognitive ability--is dominant in explaining test score variance. The weights assigned to tests by g are similar for all major...

Prior studies suggest that, to be effective, results-based control systems need to ensure managers’ goal commitment. Based on survey responses from 320 managers, we find that managers’ participation in goal setting and performance feedback are both positively asso¬ciated with goal...

An organization’s success and profitability depend upon the performance of its employees. Business leaders know that a high-performing workforce is essential for the achievement of strategic business goals. The objective of this study is to identify the individual factors of employee...

A leader can be said to be successful if he can apply a leadership style that suits his leads' work environment. A leader's experience and knowledge can affect the performance of a person or even a company. There is a lot of research and theories related to leadership and each leadership style...

This paper aims to explore the employee’s engagement and their commitment towards the organization. An employee who is the engaged and positive attitude they are inclined toward their organization. Employee Engagement is a more challenging role in the organization. Organizational success...

A supportive work environment develops an atmosphere to attract and retain a talented and motivated workforce to an organization. It further improves the commitment and dedication of employees towards more work. As a key player of the Sri Lankan economy and the second-largest foreign exchange...

We study, theoretically and empirically, the effects of incentives on the self-selection and coordination of motivated agents to produce a social good. Agents join teams where they allocate effort to either generate individual monetary rewards (selfish effort) or contribute to the production of...

One important thing in sustaining employee performance is motivation. This makes researchers interested in doing research. This research is intended to analyze the motivating impact that workers are having on their performance. The study includes a qualitative type of descriptive research by...

This study aims to prove empirically the effect of work motivation on work productivity. This study used a sample of 66 employees of PT MNC Sky Vision KPP Padang with a proportionate stratified random sampling technique. The data used are primary data obtained through distributing questionnaires...

Abstract This study aims to prove empirically the effect of work motivation on work productivity. This study used a sample of 66 employees of PT MNC Sky Vision KPP Padang with a proportionate stratified random sampling technique. The data used are primary data obtained through distributing...

According to psychologists and neuroscientists, a key source of intrinsic motivation is learning. An economic model of this is presented. Learning may make work less onerous, or the employee may value it in and of itself. Multitasking generates learning: performing one task increases...

Based on social exchange theory, this research introduced a model to understand factors that contribute towards inclusive leadership (IL) and its effect on innovative work behavior (IWB) with employee engagement (EE) as a mediator. Although the connection between IL and IWB is previously...

The background of this study is based on the controversial relationship between transformational leadership and employee performance. Empirical and theoretical models resolve the controversy by building a new concept based on proactive knowledge sharing. The study established the influence of...

Motivated by the self-determination theory of psychology, we ask how simple school practices can forge students’ engagement with the academic aspect of school life. We carried out a large-scale preregistered randomized field experiment with a crossover design, involving all the students of the...

Herdenimmunität, oder zumindest eine hohe Durchimpfung, ist ein Ziel der Impfungen gegen COVID-19. Dieses soll möglichst schnell erreicht werden, um weitere Ansteckungswellen zu verhindern und auch die Ausbreitung stärker ansteckender Varianten zu bremsen. Bisher war die Impfstoffmenge ein...

This article investigates the motivation of contingent workers in the gig economy of China, particularly focusing on the two Mobile Food Delivery Aggregators (MFDA) - Meituan and Ele.me that controls over 80% of the food delivery market in China. The convenience of one "super-app" on phone,...

The new social context brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic has generated significant changes in the work of employees. Social distancing and isolation have imposed the adoption of teleworking in most cases. Teleworking existed before the COVID-19 pandemic, and was considered a facilitator of...

In Romania, the COVID-19 pandemic has interfered with education, besides other areas, since March 2020. Schools and universities shifted from classroom to online teaching, and the education system needed to adapt to the new form of organization. The paper provides a study on how teachers from...

This study aims to analyze how workaholism and work engagement influenced Distance Learning (DL) - as a subset of teleworking, work-to-family conflict (WFC), and negative affect in Italian teachers. Moreover, among other aims, it analyzes if teachers' perceived negative impact of DL on life...

The gift exchange hypothesis postulates that workers reciprocate above market-clearing wages with above-minimum effort. This hypothesis has received mixed support in dyadic employer-worker relationships. We present a field-experimental test to assess this hypothesis in the context of a triadic...

We analyze the impact of psychological pressure on individual performance with handball penalties thrown in the decisive stage vs. the rest of the game. Contrary to the phenomenon of choking under pressure, we observe that most of the analyzed players perform best when it matters the most. The...