Relational Job Design and the Motivation to Make a Prosocial Difference
Abstract
This article illustrates how work contexts motivate employees to care about making a positive difference in other people's lives. I introduce a model of relational job design to describe how jobs spark the motivation to make a prosocial difference, and how this motivation affects employees' actions and identities. Whereas existing research focuses on individual differences and the task structures of jobs, I illuminate how the relational...
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Title
Relational Job Design and the Motivation to Make a Prosocial Difference
Published Date
Apr 1, 2007
Journal
Volume
32
Issue
2
Pages
393 - 417
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