Relational job design and the motivation to make a prosocial difference

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Grant, Adam M.
• 署名单位: University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 393-417
• 关键词: organizational citizenship behavior; SELF-DETERMINATION THEORY; OBJECTIVIST APPROACH; EMPLOYEE COMMITMENT; EMOTIONAL LABOR; WORK MOTIVATION; MODERATING ROLE; well; management; exchange

摘要

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 architecture of jobs shapes the motivation to make a prosocial difference.