Work motivationWork motivation is a person's internal disposition toward work. To further this, an incentive is the anticipated reward or aversive event available in the environment. While motivation can often be used as a tool to help predict behavior, it varies greatly among individuals and must often be combined with ability and environmental factors to actually influence behavior and performance. Results from a 2012 study, which examined age-related differences in work motivation, suggest a "shift in people's motives" rather than a general decline in motivation with age.
Activation physiologiqueL'activation physiologique (ou activation cérébrale) désigne l'état psychophysiologique correspondant à l'activation de la formation réticulée activatrice (FRA) du tronc cérébral impliquant le système nerveux autonome (accélération du rythme cardiaque et augmentation de la pression sanguine) et le système endocrinien (production de cortisol). Cette activation se manifeste, sur le plan comportemental, par un état d'alerte, une plus grande sensibilité perceptive, une plus grande rapidité de traitement cognitif et des réponses motrices plus rapides.
Work designWork design (also referred to as job design or task design) is an area of research and practice within industrial and organizational psychology, and is concerned with the "content and organization of one's work tasks, activities, relationships, and responsibilities" (p. 662). Research has demonstrated that work design has important implications for individual employees (e.g., employee engagement, job strain, risk of occupational injury), teams (e.g., how effectively groups co-ordinate their activities), organisations (e.
