The volitional nature of motivation and cultural creativity: an anthropological investigation
We examine the volitional, non-rational nature of motivation and its impact on symbolic production at work. Based on a long-term ethnography of a Brazilian special police force we argue that institutional stable symbolic frames of reference have long been taken for granted in studies of motivation,...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) |
| Repositorio: | Cadernos EBAPE.BR |
| Idioma: | portugués inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.periodicos.fgv.br:article/68923 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.fgv.br/cadernosebape/article/view/68923 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Motivation. Identity. Alterity. Metaphysics. Symbolism. Meaning. Motivación. Identidad. Alteridad. Metafísica. Simbolismo. Significado. Motivação. Identidade. Alteridade. Metafísica. Simbolismo. Significado. |
| Sumario: | We examine the volitional, non-rational nature of motivation and its impact on symbolic production at work. Based on a long-term ethnography of a Brazilian special police force we argue that institutional stable symbolic frames of reference have long been taken for granted in studies of motivation, thus leaving aside the role of aesthetical demand in producing active symbolic elaboration at work. Unstable institutional frames of reference are relevant to understand the efforts of internal integration, identity building and relations of alterity at work. In this sense, this article has the main objective of contributing to the studies on intrinsic motivation within organizations. |
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