Motivational Mechanisms of Self-Concordance Theory: Goal-Specific Efficacy and Person–Organization Fit

Downes, Patrick E.; Kristof‐Brown, Amy L.; Judge, Timothy A.; Darnold, Todd C.

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“…Goal attainment and "if-then" plans (1) Formulating, strategizing, and prioritizing goals, (2) identifying and describing ways to overcome obstacles, and (3) monitoring progress toward goals 7. Public commitment to goal Photo with statement, which communicates their goals to the world; communicating goals to friends, coworkers passionate about and from which they can get energy (see Werner et al, 2016;Downes et al, 2017). However, research on mental illness prevails the literature in occupational health psychology, despite a call for a shift toward more research into positive psychology as antipode for work-related health problems such as job burnout.…”

Section: Values and Passionmentioning

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Life Crafting as a Way to Find Purpose and Meaning in Life

2019

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Having a purpose in life is one of the most fundamental human needs. However, for most people, finding their purpose in life is not obvious. Modern life has a way of distracting people from their true goals and many people find it hard to define their purpose in life. Especially at younger ages, people are searching for meaning in life, but this has been found to be unrelated to actually finding meaning. Oftentimes, people experience pressure to have a "perfect" life and show the world how well they are doing, instead of following up on their deep-felt values and passions. Consequently, people may need a more structured way of finding meaning, e.g., via an intervention. In this paper, we discuss evidence-based ways of finding purpose, via a process that we call "life crafting." This process fits within positive psychology and the salutogenesis framework -an approach focusing on factors that support human health and well-being, instead of factors that cause disease. This process ideally starts with an intervention that entails a combination of reflecting on one's values, passions and goals, best possible self, goal attainment plans, and other positive psychology intervention techniques. Important elements of such an intervention are: (1) discovering values and passion, (2) reflecting on current and desired competencies and habits, (3) reflecting on present and future social life, (4) reflecting on a possible future career, (5) writing about the ideal future, (6) writing down specific goal attainment and "if-then" plans, and (7) making public commitments to the goals set. Prior research has shown that personal goal setting and goal attainment plans help people gain a direction or a sense of purpose in life. Research findings from the field of positive psychology, such as salutogenesis, implementation intentions, value congruence, broadenand-build, and goal-setting literature, can help in building a comprehensive evidence-based life-crafting intervention. This intervention can aid individuals to find a purpose in life, while at the same time ensuring that they make concrete plans to work toward this purpose. The idea is that life crafting enables individuals to take control of their life in order to optimize performance and happiness.

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Section: Values and Passionmentioning

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Life Crafting as a Way to Find Purpose and Meaning in Life

2019

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“…Moreover, often research that has addressed person-organizational fit has focused on this only at the point of recruitment. Very little work has examined this with individuals already in the organization and who have been in their roles for a period of time (Downes, Kristof-Brown, Judge, & Darnold, 2017). The specific focus of the present study was on the key cultural elements within the governing body's work environment that promoted the women's sense of organizational fit to draw lessons to increase diversity more generally amongst coaching workforces.…”

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“I Don’t Really Know What the Magic Wand Is to Get Yourself in There”: Women’s Sense of Organizational Fit as Coach Developers

Norman

2020

Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal

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Building on the body of research that has addressed the experiences of female coaches, the present study examines women’s role as coach developers. English football served as the context for the research. Figures demonstrate women are underrepresented in this role more so than they are as coaches, and their distribution across the coach developer pathway is unevenly balanced, with most women qualified at Level I of the pathway. Using the concept of ‘organizational fit’, the research connects the experiences of the 10 coach developers interviewed, to the structural practices of their national and local governing bodies. These practices were symptomatic of the organizations’ culture that is created and upheld by masculine ideals. Work expectations and the environment were structured on the image of men as coaches and coach developers. Cultural barriers to women’s sense of organizational fit were specifically found to be: the incentive to progress (return on investment from higher coaching qualifications), the degree of organizational support and nurture, and the opportunity to progress and practice. Consequently, organizational expectations and values do not support the ambitions of women to climb the coach developer career ladder, and restrict their sense of choice and control. Future research should direct its attention towards a greater interrogation of aspects of sport organizational culture that may serve to ‘push’ female coaches away from its core, or alternatively, pull them closer to engage and make use of their expertise and abilities as coach developers.

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“…This leads to employee's motivation on organizational effectiveness which results in the employee's job satisfaction. Downes et al (2017) Findings indicated that autonomous motives were positively related to goal-specific efficacy and perceived Person-Organization (PO) fit (Time 1), and showed indirect effects on goal accomplishment and other-rated job satisfaction (Time 2). Controlled thought processes were adversely identified with similar middle people and results.…”

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Effective Motivational Tools in Hotel Industry

Kumari

2018

Asian Journal of Social Sciences and Management Studies

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Motivation is especially important in the hospitality and tourism industry, where competence and employee satisfaction are key determinants of service quality. The study aims to find out the important factors which motivate the working personnel in the hospitality industry. The primary data has been collected through a structured questionnaire. The questionnaires were filled by 5 Managers and 40 employees of the Oberoi Hotel, New Delhi. Simple random sampling has been used. For the hotel industry in particular, training is a useful tool for an effective development of the human resource. The job in a hotel involves lot of work pressures and the employees need to be able to cope with this. Though the purpose of training in Hotel is to prepare the employees for future assignments but still training empowers him with knowledge and skill, which in turn affects his motivation level. Thus Training although traditional, still retains its position as an important motivational tool.

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Motivational Mechanisms of Self-Concordance Theory: Goal-Specific Efficacy and Person–Organization Fit

Cited by 49 publications

References 75 publications

Life Crafting as a Way to Find Purpose and Meaning in Life

Life Crafting as a Way to Find Purpose and Meaning in Life

“I Don’t Really Know What the Magic Wand Is to Get Yourself in There”: Women’s Sense of Organizational Fit as Coach Developers

Effective Motivational Tools in Hotel Industry

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