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| Type | Journal Article |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Passion: Buzzword or theoretical construct? |
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| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Journal Title | Academy of Management. Proceedings |
| Publisher | Academy of Management |
| Geographical Reach | international |
| ISSN | 2151-6561 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Number | 1 |
| Page Range | online |
| Date | 2016 |
| Abstract Text | Why are employees motivated to work? If we believe graduation speakers, it is to "follow their passion" and to "do what they love." Being passionate about one's work is increasingly seen as an important component of employees' motivation, and has sparked recent calls for a theoretical construct of its' own (Perrewé et al. 2012). However, whether passion for work is really essential to work-related outcomes is unclear. Employees can view their work in a variety of ways, as a job, career or a calling (Wrzesniewski et al., 1997), which may determine the importance of passion for work. Because multiple sources of motivation do not add to each other to create larger overall motivation (Wrzesniewski et al. 2014), we wonder is passion really necessary? In addition, a new set of studies questions whether passion is something that is fixed or can be grown (Chen et al., 2015), and whether passion can develop with invested energy over time (Gielnik et al., 2015). Is passion necessary for a meaningful life? Does passion have to occur at work? How can passion be refueled? In this symposium, we propose to start thinking about passion more rigorously, and help establish it as a meaningful construct in the organizational behavioral literature. |
| Digital Object Identifier | 10.5465/AMBPP.2016.10963symposium |
| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:17967 |
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