I get a kick out of reading academic articles as the conclusions of their studies often seem to be just plain common sense. For example, one such article I recently read is: “The relationship between career plateauing, employee commitment and psychological distress: the role of organizational and supervisor support” (International Journal of Human Resource Management, [...]
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Career Crossroads
Posted in Career, Engagement, tagged career on July 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Putting Some PEP Into Your Job
Posted in Books, Engagement, tagged engagement, life on July 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In Pink’s book (see previous post), he discusses 3 elements of “true” motivation: Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose. Interestingly, the concept of passion for one’s job is not mentioned (not even listed in the Index). Shortly after reading Pink’s book, I decided to follow up by reading some of the sources he cites in his book, [...]
What Motivates You?
Posted in Books, Engagement, tagged career, engagement on July 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Recently, a group of us at work received a copy of Daniel Pink’s most recent book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, with the idea that we would meet to discuss the book after everyone had read it. Unfortunately, that idea seems to have fallen by the wayside. I was going to write [...]
