Self-Determination Theory’s Contribution to Positive Organizational Psychology
Advances in Positive Organizational Psychology
ISBN: 978-1-78052-000-1, eISBN: 978-1-78052-001-8
Publication date: 14 May 2013
Abstract
At the core of SDT is the postulation of three basic psychological needs, that is, the needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness. The satisfaction of these three needs is said to be of utmost importance in its own right as it contributes to people’s functioning. Moreover, need satisfaction forms the basis for the development of more optimal forms of motivation (i.e., intrinsic motivation, internalization) and contributes to individual differences in people’s general motivational orientation, called general causality orientations, and differences in values that also affect how we live and thrive.
Citation
Gagné, M. and Vansteenkiste, M. (2013), "Self-Determination Theory’s Contribution to Positive Organizational Psychology", Bakker, A.B. (Ed.) Advances in Positive Organizational Psychology (Advances in Positive Organizational Psychology, Vol. 1), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 61-82. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2046-410X(2013)0000001006
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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