The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work

By Teresa M. Amabile, Steve J. Kramer. 2011

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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“I’m Not Mopping the Floors, I’m Putting a Man on the Moon”: How NASA Leaders Enhanced the Meaningfulness of Work by Changing the Meaning of Work (2018, background): “Theory on goal setting (Locke and Latham, 1990), planning (Ajzen, 1991), selfregulation (Carver and Scheier, 1998), and intermediate goals (Amabile and Kramer, 2011) suggests that employees thrive when they are able to work through a comprehensive set of action steps or small wins that ‘‘emphasize…”
When do you procrastinate? Sleep quality and social sleep lag jointly predict self-regulatory failure at work (2016, background): “Moreover, procrastination is frustrating for employees because it implies a discrepancy between intentions and actions, and impedes the positive experience of making progress on work tasks (Amabile & Kramer, 2011).”
What Makes Us Enthusiastic, Angry, Feeling at Rest or Worried? Development and Validation of an Affective Work Events Taxonomy Using Concept Mapping Methodology (2015, background): “For example, to test the assumption that progress is the most important affective work event leading to positive affect (Amabile and Kramer 2011), the identification and control of potential confounding positive events is needed.”
Perspectives on the Social Psychology of Creativity (2012, unknown): “Moreover, because Weiss and Cropanzano’s Affective Events Theory (1996) and Amabile’s subsequent research (Amabile & Kramer, 2011) highlight the impact of events in the work environment on affective state, affect joins the list of creativity-relevant process elements that can be signiﬁcantly…”
Making Experience Count: The Role of Reflection in Individual Learning (2016, background): “For instance, the notion that reflection favors progress along the learning curve may inform research on employee motivation and the role of work progress as one of its key drivers (Amabile and Kramer, 2011).”
“I Put in Effort, Therefore I Am Passionate”: Investigating the Path from Effort to Passion in Entrepreneurship (2014, background): “Similarly, Amabile and Kramer (2011) suggested that these small wins are indicators of progress, with powerful effects on people’s emotions.”