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The Laws of Human Motivation: The Situational Motivation Model
A theoretical synthesis, conceptual model, and application framework: it redefines motivation from "whether someone has drive" into a situated process of "whether motivation is generated, whether it can be converted into behavior, and whether it can be sustained," integrating self-determination theory, expectancy-value, goal setting, self-efficacy, and behavior models; bringing in perspectives from developmental psychology, business management, and organizational and occupational psychology to propose a three-layer "Situational Motivation Model" with a "growth axis," which it concretizes in the workplace into six components — task, goal, incentive, feedback, development path, and leadership/relationship — connecting to measurable outcomes such as engagement, commitment, performance, burnout, and turnover, introducing the enterprise life cycle as an enterprise-level moderating variable, and ultimately yielding nine falsifiable laws of motivation.
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