Work Motivation

Gary Latham is the Secretary of State Professor of Organizational Effectiveness in the Rotman School School of Management at the University of Toronto.  He is a Past President of the Canadian Psychological Association, a Fellow of the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association, American Psychological Society, Canadian Psychological Association, and the Royal Society of Canada.  He is the only person to receive both the awards for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology as a Profession and as a Science from the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology.  He is also the recipient of the Scholarly Practitioner and the Heneman Career Achievement Award from the Academy of Management Human Resource Division.  He is the co-author of A Theory of Goal Setting and Task Performance with Edwin A. Locke; and Increasing Productivity through Performance Appraisal, and Developing and Training Human Resources, both with K. N. Wexley.

• Preface and Acknowledgments: Person-Environment FitIntroduction: Thirteen Critical Incidents in the Life of a Scientist-PractitionerPART I: THE 20TH CENTURY: UNDERSTANDING THE PASTChapter 1: 1900–1925: Biology, Behavior, and MoneyChapter 2: 1925–1950: Dust Bowl EmpiricismChapter 3: 1950–1975: The Emergence of TheoryChapter 4: 1975–2000: The Employee Is Immersed in ThoughtChapter 5: 20th-Century ControversiesPART II: THE 21ST CENTURY: EXAMINING THE PRESENT: 2000–2010Chapter 6: Needs: The Starting Point of MotivationChapter 7: Personality Traits: Distal Predictors of MotivationChapter 8: Values: Trans-Situational GoalsChapter 9: Cognition: Goals, Feedback, and Self-RegulationChapter 10: Social Cognitive TheoryChapter 11: Affect/Emotion: The Employee Has Feelings TooPART III: FUTURE DIRECTIONS AND POTENTIAL MISDIRECTIONSChapter 12: Boundaryless PsychologyPART IV: EPILOGUEChapter 13: The Art of Practice

Very good book indeed. I really enjoyed reading it and told the new MSc intake that they would enjoy this if they wanted to buy something more in depth on work motivation for themselves. I loved the historical aspect to it.