Motivating creativity in organizations: on doing what you love and loving what you do

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Creativity in all fields, including business, flourishes under intrinsic motivation - the drive to do something because it is interesting, involving, exciting, satisfying, or personally challenging. This article presents the Componential Theory of Organizational Creativity and Innovation, which defines the factors - including intrinsic motivation - that determine a person's creativity. This article also shows how the work environment can influence individual creativity. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Management, Work environment, Employee motivation, Business creativity

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Why I've stopped carrying a gun

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A woman started carrying a gun for protection after the shooting murder of her sister in 1989. But carrying a gun did not make her feel safer, and she decided to stop carrying a gun after she inadvertently fired it in her living room.

Personal narratives, Column, Firearms, Gun control

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Adaptation and scale of reference bias in self-assessments of quality of life

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Issues concerning the impact of biases on the self-assessment of the quality of life of individuals are presented. The reporting of higher levels of well-being by handicapped or sick people is discussed.

Psychological aspects, Quality of life, Adaptation (Biology), Evolutionary adaptation, Subjectivity, Self-evaluation, Self evaluation

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