Motivating Humans: Goals, Emotions, and Personal Agency Beliefs

Voorkant
SAGE, 6 okt 1992 - 302 pagina's
This 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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Chapter 1 Rationale for Motivational Systems Theory
1
Obstacles Facing Efforts to Apply Scholarly Work on Motivation to RealWorld Problems
3
Objectives of Motivational Systems Theory
12
Suggestions for Further Reading
16
The Living Systems Framework
17
Origins of the Living Systems Framework
18
Objectives and General Strategy of the Living Systems Framework
19
The Unitary Functioning of the Whole PersoninContext
22
Chapter 6 Integration of Historical and Contemporary Theories of Motivation
152
Overview of Motivation Theory Summary Table
153
32 Theories and Categories of Theories of Motivation
156
Conclusions
172
Suggestions for Further Reading
173
Principles and Applications
201
General Principles
202
Application of MST to the Problem of Promoting Social Responsibility and Caring Behavior in Youth
219

The Components of Unitary Functioning
32
Processes and Principles of Change and Development in Living Systems
53
Next Steps
63
Suggestions for Further Reading
64
Chapter 3 Defining Motivation and Its Role in Effective Functioning
65
Motivation and Effective PersoninContext Functioning
66
Defining and Delimiting the Domain of Human Motivation
72
Suggestions for Further Reading
82
Chapter 4 Personal Goals
83
Goal Hierarchies
97
GoalSetting Processes
110
Goal Orientations
112
Wishes Current Concerns and Intentions
115
The Role of Consciousness
118
Goals and Standards for Goal Attainment
119
Suggestions for Further Reading
122
Chapter 5 Personal Agency Beliefs and Emotional Arousal Processes
123
Application of MST to the Problem of Increasing Motivation for Learning and School Achievement
224
Application of MST to the Problem of Understanding and Facilitating the Links between Job Satisfaction and Work Productivity
231
Application of MST to the Problem of Helping People Lead an Emotionally Healthy Life
239
Suggestions for Further Reading
243
Chapter 8 Summary of Motivational Systems Theory
244
General Nature of Motivational Systems Theory
245
Concepts and Principles Representing the Components of Effective Functioning
247
Concepts and Principles Pertaining to Personal Goals
248
Concepts and Principles Pertaining to Personal Agency Beliefs
251
Concepts and Principles Pertaining to Emotional Arousal Processes
252
Principles for Motivating Humans
254
References
258
Name Index
284
Subject Index
291
About the Author
301
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