Organizational studies
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Theories and models of organizational studies
- Decision making
- Organization structures and dynamics
- Bureaucracy
- Complexity theory and organizations
- Contingency theory
- Evolutionary Theory and organizations
- Hybrid organisation
- Incentive theory (organization)
- Informal Organization
- Institutional theory
- Merger integration
- Organizational ecology
- Model of Organizational Citizenship behaviour
- Model of organizational justice
- Model of Organizational Misbehaviour
- Resource dependence theory
- Transaction cost
- Hofstede's Framework for Assessing Cultures
- Mintzberg's Organigraph
- Personality traits theories
- Big Five personality traits
- Holland's Typology of Personality and Congruent Occupations
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
- Control and stress modelling
- Herzberg's Two factor theory
- Theory X and Theory Y
- Motivation in organizations
Motivation the forces either internal or external to a person that arouse enthusiasm and resistance to pursue a certain course of action. According to Baron et al. (2008)<ref>Baron, Robert A., and Greenberg, Jerald. Behavior in organizations – 9th edition. Pearson Education Inc., New Jersey: 2008. p.248</ref>: "Although motivation is a broad and complex concept, organizational scientists have agreed on its basic characteristics. Drawing from various social sciences, we define motivation as the set of processes that arouse, direct, and maintain human behavior toward attaining some goal"
There are many different motivation theories such as:
- Attribution theory
- Equity theory
- Maslow's hierarchy of needs
- Incentive theory (psychology)
- Model of emotional labor in organizations
- Frederick Herzberg two-factor theory
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