Yoke Berry’s research while affiliated with University of Wollongong and other places

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Motivating workers: how leaders apply self-determination theory in organizations
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December 2020

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Organization Management Journal

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Yoke Berry

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Self-determination theory (SDT), offers a theoretical framework for enhancing employee motivation and stimulating positive outcomes such as commitment, well-being and engagement, in organizations. This paper aims to investigate the application of SDT among leaders and delineate practical managerial approaches for supporting basic psychological needs in the workplace. Participants were 51 leaders who had personally applied SDT with their own followers. Data were collected via free-listing method and analysed to extrapolate examples of SDT-application that are both practically salient and aligned to theoretic tenets of SDT. The findings reveal how SDT is operationalized by leaders to support basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness in the workplace. The SDT-informed management strategies are discussed in relation to the literature and alongside case scenarios to illustrate approaches for integrating elements of SDT into day-to-day management activities. Despite extensive literature support for SDT, very little empirical attention has been paid to examining how the theory is applied, interpreted and/or used by practitioners in real world settings. This research is the first to draw on the lived-experience of practitioners who have applied SDT, contributes previously unexplored strategies for supporting workers’ basic psychological needs and responds to calls for SDT research to identify a broader range of managerial behaviours that support employee motivation.

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Rights, Respect and Responsibilities Online - Reflections and Efficacy

March 2018

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Australian Journal of Teacher Education

Demands for moral development are increasing in business and professional training. Mixed results of diversity training programs in the higher education sector suggest that innovative approaches are required for preparing students to become morally upright leaders and teachers. This research looks at the implementation of an online interactive tutorial that focuses on students working and learning together with others from a variety of diverse backgrounds. The study comprises a three-year investigation on the attitudes and understandings of students prior to a group work assessment task, and after completing the online tutorial. First year primary education students (n=594) completed pre- and post-surveys on their perspective of working with others, with a moderating educational intervention. Results revealed mixed views about the value of the program to this generation of students. We make suggestions for institutions of higher education to consider when creating diversity training and support for university students.

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... This focus on employees' well-being, explored through these theories, makes the spiritual dimensions of the employee at the workplace (Aboobaker, Edward, and Zakkariya 2020) a new way of bringing light to the way that sustainable HRM may impact potential work-related outcomes (Lu et al. 2023). SDT can help explain the model because of its emphasis on intrinsic motivation and the psychological factors in human behavior (Forner et al. 2020), while signaling theory is relevant for its focus on how organizational signals influence behaviors (Baruah and Panda 2020). Sustainable HRM practices are interpreted as signals of organizational commitment to sustainability (Santos, Coelho, and Marques 2023), influencing employees' motivation to engage in PB and OCBE (Guest et al. 2021). ...

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Sustainable HRM Impact on Employees' Behaviors Through Workplace Spirituality
Motivating workers: how leaders apply self-determination theory in organizations

Organization Management Journal

... This online mode of learning is referred to as m-learning (mobile learning) ( Annan, Ofori-Dwumfuo, & Falch, 2018;Alrasheedi & Capretz, 2015). Many institutions now offer all lessons and activities online (Eady, Jones, Alony, & Berry, 2018), which promotes environmental sustainability and offers learners the flexibility of distance learning. This paper focuses on the following research question flowing from the aforementioned narrative: How do pre-service teachers view the use of DOE technology based teaching methods to learn Euclidean geometry? ...

Rights, Respect and Responsibilities Online - Reflections and Efficacy

Australian Journal of Teacher Education