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natural work module

a unit of work in which an employee or team of employees produces a whole item or otherwise completes a meaningful sequence of tasks from start to finish. Such an approach has been found to yield greater task identity and therefore greater motivation than one in which employees perform their tasks with little or no sense of context.

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February 23rd 2025

internal frustration

internal frustration

in classical psychoanalytic theory, denial of gratification of instinctual impulses due to internal factors (e.g., the superego), as opposed to external factors.