What Should we do About Motivation Theory? Six Recommendations for the Twenty-First Century
提出六条建议,旨在构建更有效、更完整、范围更广且对实践者更有用的工作动机理论,包括整合现有理论、研究无意识动机等。
We present six recommendations for building theories of work motivation that are more valid, more complete, broader in scope, and more useful to practitioners than existing theories. (1) Integrate extant theories by using existing meta-analyses to build a megatheory of work motivation. (2) Create a boundaryless science of work motivation. (3) Study the various types of relationships that could hold between general (trait) and situationally specific motivation. (4) Study subconscious as well as conscious motivation. (5) Use introspection explicitly in theory building. (6) Acknowledge the role of volition in human action when formulating theories.