Make it challenging : motivation through goal setting
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Intrinsic motivation;JEL classification:
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- D86 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Economics of Contract Law
- M50 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - General
- Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2011-10-01 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-CTA-2011-10-01 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-HRM-2011-10-01 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-MIC-2011-10-01 (Microeconomics)
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