Human Motivation - Brossura

McClelland, David

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ISBN 10: 0521369517 ISBN 13: 9780521369510

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Riassunto

Human Motivation examines the methods behind four major human motive systems - achievement, power, affiliation and avoidance.

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Descrizione del libro

Human Motivation, originally published in 1987, offers a broad overview of theory and research measuring motives, the development of motives out of natural incentives and the relationship of motives to emotions, to values and to performance under a variety of conditions.

Contenuti

Preface; Foreword; Part I. Background: 1. Conscious and unconscious motives; 2. Motives in the personality tradition; 3. Motivation in the behaviourist tradition; Part II. The Nature of Human Motives: 4. Emotions as indicators of natural incentives; 5. Natural incentives and their derivatives; 6. Measures of human motive dispositions; Part III. Important Motive Systems: 7. The achievement motive; 8. The power motive; 9. The affiliative motives; 10. The avoidance motives; Part IV. Contextual Effects on Human Motives: 11. Motivational trends in society; 12. Cognitive effects on motivation; 13. How motives interact with values and skills to determine what people do; 14. Motivation training; 15. Milestones in the progress toward a scientific understanding of human motivation; Bibliography; Acknowledgements.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521369517
• ISBN 13: 9780521369510
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 676
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile