ABSTRACT
Unlike previous chapters in this volume, this chapter is comprised of a series of short essays by scholars outside the eld of work and organizational psychology. As the previous chapters attest, the determinants and consequences of work motivation have ramications for science and society that extend far beyond traditional criteria, such as job performance. In the psychological sciences, issues related to motivation and the regulation of action are of increasing importance in a number of subelds, including cognitive psychology, human factors, health psychology, developmental and life span psychology, and social psychology. In macro-oriented areas of science, such as economics, law, nance, and sociology, increasing interest is being directed toward understanding the variables that inuence human motivation as well as the effects of motivated action on collective outcomes, such as patterns of scal well-being and geographic mobility. As the essays in this chapter indicate, human motivation in the context of work is a topic of substantial interest to scientists in a wide range of elds.
