Introduction

When work motivation is considered from an organizational perspective, as is characteristic of the chapters adopted in this part of the book, our subject matter is further complicated. This adds a series of potentially conditioning and intervening variables that affect one or more phases of the motivation of employees and managers, or that are, in turn, affected by these. This part of the book stresses that motivation does not necessarily apply exclusively to the behavior of an individual organization member, as it may also be related to the behavior of members of a group, business unit, or organization at large. In other words, in this part the emphasis will shift from the micro-level up to the meso-and macro-level, and backward again.