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Motivation & Wellbeing at Work | Prof. Anja Olafsen | 29


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Professor Anja Olafsen on how to improve your motivation for work, how your salary and bonuses affect your motivation and wellbeing, the best management and leadership styles, following your passion and much more...

Anja Olafsen is a Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway and at the Future of Work Institute at Curtin University. Professor Olafsen has published prolifically in the areas of Self-Determination Theory, management and leadership, and workplace wellbeing.
Chapters
0:00 Show Intro
3:52 Self-Determination Theory
9:48 Pay and Motivation
19:35 Giving motivating feedback
25:15 Leadership styles
28:20 Cost-benefit considerations
32:10 Increasing your own work motivation
35:50 Following your passion
40:30 Work wellbeing in practice
Further resources
"A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of intervention programs designed to support autonomy" by Su & Reeve (2011)
"The Oxford Handbook of Work Engagement, Motivation and Self-Determination Theory" by van Doorn et. al. (2015)
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