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Staw Barry M. | Zendy; Calder Bobby J. | Zendy; Hess Randall K. | Zendy; Sandelands Lance E. | Zendy

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Intrinsic Motivation and norms about payment 1

Author(s) -

Staw Barry M.,

Calder Bobby J.,

Hess Randall K.,

Sandelands Lance E.

Publication year - 1980

Publication title -

journal of personality

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082

H-Index - 144

eISSN - 1467-6494

pISSN - 0022-3506

DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1980.tb00961.x

Subject(s) - psychology , norm (philosophy) , persistence (discontinuity) , payment , task (project management) , perspective (graphical) , social psychology , cognitive psychology , artificial intelligence , computer science , epistemology , economics , world wide web , engineering , philosophy , geotechnical engineering , management

A bstract Several previous studies have shown that rewarding individuals for preforming an interesting task may have an inhibitory effect on tast satisfaction and persistence. In this experiment, an extrinsic reward decreased task satisfaction and persistence when a norm for no payment existed, but the inhibitory effect was not found when a norm for payment was associated with the task. This result is discussed in terms of the “means‐ends” theoretical perspective developed by Calder and Straw (1975b) as well as other dcompeting explanations.

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