Motivating Humans: Goals, Emotions, and Personal Agency BeliefsThis volume provides a precise and comprehensive description of human motivation. Drawing on psychology, education and management, Ford integrates classic and contemporary motivation theory into a unified framework - Motivational Systems Theory - from which he derives 17 principles for motivating people. The book provides concrete examples throughout and includes a chapter on practical applications such as: promoting social responsibility in young people; increasing motivation for learning and school achievement; increasing work productivity and job satisfaction; and helping people lead emotionally healthy lives. |
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Contents
The Living Systems | 17 |
Defining Motivation and Its Role in Effective | 65 |
Personal Goals | 83 |
Personal Agency Beliefs and Emotional Arousal | 123 |
Integration of Historical and Contemporary | 152 |
Summary of Motivational Systems Theory | 244 |
| 258 | |
| 284 | |
| 291 | |
About the Author | 301 |
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| Title | Motivating Humans: Goals, Emotions, and Personal Agency Beliefs |
| Author | Martin E. Ford |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | SAGE, 1992 |
| ISBN | 0803945299, 9780803945296 |
| Length | 302 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Economics / General Business & Economics / Leadership Business & Economics / Motivational Psychology / Developmental / General |
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