On the psychological and motivational processes linking job characteristics to employee functioning: Insights from self-determination theory

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Self-Determination Theory Can Help You Generate Performance and Well-Being in the Workplace: A Review of the Literature (2018, background): “…that jobs structured according to these five characteristics are effective in satisfying individuals’ basic psychological needs and, consequently, at increasing autonomous regulation and decreasing controlled regulation (Hadi & Adil, 2010; Trépanier et al., 2015; van Hooff & van Hooft, 2017).”
Basic psychological needs and work motivation: A longitudinal test of directionality (2018, background): “However, of the large SDT work literature, only a few studies have examined the motivational processes at work by looking into both the basic psychological needs and motivational regulations (Aryee et al. 2015; Bentzen et al. 2015; De Cooman et al. 2013; Graves and Luciano 2013; Olafsen and Halvari ”
Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction, Autonomous Motivation, and Meaningful Work: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective (2021, background): “On the other hand, controlled motivation tends to correlate with psychological distress and lower levels of engagement (Trépanier et al., 2015).”
On the dark side of work: a longitudinal analysis using self-determination theory (2017, background): “, 2014) and job demands (Trépanier et al., 2015) are associated with need frustration and, therefore, are to be limited as much as possible.”