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Does Intrinsic Motivation Fuel the Prosocial Fire? Motivational Synergy in Predicting Persistence, Performance, and Productivity by Grant, Adam M

“…Researchers have obtained conflicting results about the role of prosocial motivation in persistence, performance, and productivity. To resolve this…”
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Relational Job Design and the Motivation to Make a Prosocial Difference by Grant, Adam M.

“…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…”
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The Significance of Task Significance: Job Performance Effects, Relational Mechanisms, and Boundary Conditions by Grant, Adam M

“…Does task significance increase job performance? Correlational designs and confounded manipulations have prevented researchers from assessing the causal impact…”
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THE NECESSITY OF OTHERS IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION: INTRINSIC AND PROSOCIAL MOTIVATIONS, PERSPECTIVE TAKING, AND CREATIVITY by GRANT, ADAM M., BERRY, JAMES W.

“…Although many scholars believe that intrinsic motivation fuels creativity, research has returned equivocal results. Drawing on motivated information processing…”
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A Little Thanks Goes a Long Way: Explaining Why Gratitude Expressions Motivate Prosocial Behavior by Grant, Adam M, Gino, Francesca

“…Although research has established that receiving expressions of gratitude increases prosocial behavior, little is known about the psychological mechanisms that…”
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REVERSING THE EXTRAVERTED LEADERSHIP ADVANTAGE: THE ROLE OF EMPLOYEE PROACTIVITY by GRANT, ADAM M., GINO, FRANCESCA, HOFMANN, DAVID A.

“…Extraversion predicts leadership emergence and effectiveness, but do groups perform more effectively under extraverted leadership? Drawing on dominance…”
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I Won't Let You Down... or Will I? Core Self-Evaluations, Other-Orientation, Anticipated Guilt and Gratitude, and Job Performance by Grant, Adam M, Wrzesniewski, Amy

“…Although core self-evaluations have been linked to higher job performance, research has shown variability in the strength of this relationship. We propose that…”
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When Callings Are Calling: Crafting Work and Leisure in Pursuit of Unanswered Occupational Callings by Berg, Justin M., Grant, Adam M., Johnson, Victoria

“…Scholars have identified benefits of viewing work as a calling, but little research has explored the notion that people are frequently unable to work in…”
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GETTING CREDIT FOR PROACTIVE BEHAVIOR:SUPERVISOR REACTIONS DEPEND ON WHAT YOU VALUE AND HOW YOU FEEL by GRANT, ADAM M., PARKER, SHARON, COLLINS, CATHERINE

“…Although proactive behavior is important in organizations, it is not always appreciated by supervisors. To explain when supervisors reward proactivity with…”
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Unanswered Questions about Public Service Motivation: Designing Research to Address Key Issues of Emergence and Effects by Wright, Bradley E., Grant, Adam M.

“…As public service motivation research gains momentum, important questions emerge regarding its origins and consequences that are not addressed by existing…”
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Giving Time, Time After Time: Work Design and Sustained Employee Participation in Corporate Volunteering by Grant, Adam M.

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A Socially Embedded Model of Thriving at Work by Spreitzer, Gretchen, Sutcliffe, Kathleen, Dutton, Jane, Sonenshein, Scott, Grant, Adam M

“…Thriving describes an individual’s experience of vitality and learning. The primary goal of this paper is to develop a model that illuminates the social…”
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Employees without a Cause: The Motivational Effects of Prosocial Impact in Public Service by Grant, Adam M.

“…Public service employees often lack opportunities to see the prosocial impact of their jobs-how their efforts make a difference in other people's lives…”
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LEADING WITH MEANING: BENEFICIARY CONTACT, PROSOCIAL IMPACT, AND THE PERFORMANCE EFFECTS OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP by GRANT, ADAM M.

“…Although transformational leadership is thought to increase followers' performance by motivating them to transcend self-interest, rhetoric alone may not be…”
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GIVING TIME, TIME AFTER TIME: WORK DESIGN AND SUSTAINED EMPLOYEE PARTICIPATION IN CORPORATE VOLUNTEERING by GRANT, ADAM M.

“…Corporate volunteering programs are important channels for expressing care and compassion, but little research has examined when and why employees sustain…”
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Growing at Work: Employees' Interpretations of Progressive Self-Change in Organizations by Sonenshein, Scott, Dutton, Jane E., Grant, Adam M., Spreitzer, Gretchen M., Sutcliffe, Kathleen M.

“…We develop theory about how growing at work is an interpretive accomplishment in which individuals sense that they are making progressive self-change. Through…”
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ROCKING THE BOAT BUT KEEPING IT STEADY: THE ROLE OF EMOTION REGULATION IN EMPLOYEE VOICE by GRANT, ADAM M.

“…Intense emotions such as frustration, anger, and dissatisfaction often drive employees to speak up. Yet the very emotions that spur employees to express voice…”
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Doing good, doing harm, being well and burning out: The interactions of perceived prosocial and antisocial impact in service work by Grant, Adam M., Campbell, Elizabeth M.

“…Service employees often perceive their actions as harming and benefiting others, and these perceptions have significant consequences for their own well‐being…”
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Job design in temporal context: a career dynamics perspective by Fried, Yitzhak, Grant, Adam M., Levi, Ariel S., Hadani, Michael, Slowik, Linda Haynes

“…Leading theories of job design have neglected to incorporate the important context of time into their premises, hindering these theories' explanatory power and…”
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Rethinking the Extraverted Sales Ideal: The Ambivert Advantage by Grant, Adam M.

“…Despite the widespread assumption that extraverts are the most productive salespeople, research has shown weak and conflicting relationships between…”
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