April 5, 2010 by Shannon
April 5th 2010. Forget all the things you may currently believe about motivating employees. Cash incentives to stimulate productivity may work in the short term, but are ultimately not sustainable. Threats are also short lived because employee resentment brings about ill will and this is counterproductive in the long run. Such carrot and stick approaches...
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February 5, 2010 by Shannon
February 5th 2010. “The science that Mr. Pink is referring to rests largely on the work of Edward Deci and Richard Ryan at the University of Rochester and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi at Claremont Graduate University. These three researchers have found that we do our best work when motivated from within, when we have control over our...
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January 19, 2010 by Shannon
January 19th 2010. Motivation in Education Research Laboratory at the National Institute of Education in Singapore held it’s inaugural seminar on motivation in education on January 19th with invited talks from Rich Ryan and Ed Deci on ‘Nurturing the Active Learner.’ Click here to learn more
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January 12, 2010 by Shannon
January 12th 2010. “From construction laborers and secretaries to physicians and lawyers, people experience better moods, greater vitality, and fewer aches and pains from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon, concludes the first study of daily mood variation in employed adults to be published in the January 2010 issue of the Journal of Social and Clinical...
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September 30, 2009 by Shannon
September 30th 2009. Paying attention to the natural world not only makes you feel better, it makes you behave better, finds a new study to be published October 1 in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. “Stopping to experience our natural surroundings can have social as well as personal benefits,” says Richard Ryan, coauthor and...
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September 14, 2009 by Shannon
September 14th 2009. “In 2004, two Israeli researchers, Avi Assor and Guy Roth, joined Edward L. Deci, a leading American expert on the psychology of motivation, in asking more than 100 college students whether the love they had received from their parents had seemed to depend on whether they had succeeded in school, practiced...
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September 1, 2009 by Shannon
2009. “SDT, Physical Activity, and Well-Being” headlines the latest Hellenic Journal of Psychology Find out more about the Hellenic Journal of Psychology at: http://www.pseve.org/journalinfo/journalv6b.asp
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August 1, 2009 by Shannon
August 1st 2009. SDT articles featured in Canadian Psychology’s August 2008 special issue. Follow the link for more information on featured articles: http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/cap/49/3/
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July 1, 2009 by Shannon
July 2009. Gagné and Deci’s 2005 article, “Self-determination theory and work motivation,” appeared in the Journal of Organizational Behavior’s 30th anniversary edition as one of the 8 most influential articles published in JOB since its founding in 1980 Read more at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/job.v30:5/issuetoc
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