You probably know someone who happily spends many hours playing online video games. That same person may begrudgingly go to work and show little motivation to do their job. How can we become so ...

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), and Duke University have proposed a neuroscience framework explaining how different types of ...

New research suggests that motivation acts less like a volume knob for effort and more like a camera lens that changes how ...

Leaders spend a lot of time wondering why some employees stay loyal, why others leave quickly, and why so many slip into disengagement long before they walk out the door. People often assume the main ...

Illegitimate tasks refer to duties perceived as unnecessary or unreasonable in relation to one's professional role. When such tasks accumulate, employees often experience the situation as unfair.

Gayani Gunasekera does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Every January, offices quietly reset. New planners appear on desks. Fresh notebooks open in meetings. To-do lists look neater, ambitions clearer. There is a shared sense that this year, things will be ...