Work Motivation: History, Theory, Research, and Practice (Foundations for Organizational Science)

✍ Scribed by Gary P Latham

Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 377
Series: Foundations for Organizational Science
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Work Motivation: History, Theory, Research, and Practice provides unique behavioral science frameworks for motivating employees in organizational settings. Drawing upon his experiences as a staff psychologist and consultant to organizations, author Gary P. Latham has written this book in a “mentor voice” that is highly personal and rich in examples, including enduring influences of mentors on researchers in the field.

✦ Table of Contents

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