Motivation is hard to come by. There’s always another task, another project, another objective–and any motivation you manage to scrape together for one thing is absent for the next. But motivation isn ...

Motivation theory has evolved over time as limitations of each new theory have become salient, and new theories are proposed to improve upon the old ones. Since each theory makes sense on its own, it ...

Meaningful work is driven by intrinsic, rather than extrinsic, motivation. Extrinsic motivation is a nice way of describing when you do things primarily to receive a reward. You might take a new job ...

Marafiote, T. (2025) Motivation in Contemporary Education Practice: A Critical Review and Research Proposal. Psychology, 16, ...

Using process theory, a type of scientific observation, individuals measure how events in a specific process lead to an outcome. According to this theory, when a company wants to reproduce an outcome, ...

We all have motivation that ebbs and flows. Some mornings you wake up energized to get to work and power through that to-do list. Others you smack the alarm clock, curse the morning and give yourself ...

Managers of all types of organizations, including small firms, need to motivate their employees to remain competitive. Since employees may find different factors to be motivating, it is crucial that ...