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work motivation

the desire or willingness to make an effort in one’s work. Motivating factors may include salary and other benefits, desire for status and recognition, a sense of achievement, relationships with colleagues, and a feeling that one’s work is useful or important. A variety of theories of work motivation exist, including the existence, relatedness, and growth theory, the job-characteristics model, the Porter–Lawler model of motivation, the valence–instrumentality–expectancy theory, and the two-factor theory of work motivation.

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