This episode is about workplace emotional labour and ways to manage it. It may help if you first listen to our mini-episode about emotional labour -- or watch the video of that minisode.

This episode's guest is Professor Helena Nguyen from the University of Sydney Business School Work and Organisational Studies unit, where she is co-director of the Body, Heart and Mind in Business research group.

Mind on the Job is created, presented & produced by Dr Ben Searle. Check out our website MindOnTheJob.com for more resources.

Music is Cypher by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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This episode draws on Self-Determination Theory to discuss basic psychological needs and how they affect motivation, performance, and wellbeing in the workplace. It may help if you first listen to our mini-episode about Self-Determination Theory (2.9) -- or watch the video.

This episode's guest is Professor Marylène Gagné, a John Curtin Distinguished Professor at the Future of Work Institute in the Faculty of Business and Law. The Institute promotes productive and meaningful work as essential foundations of a healthy economy and society.

Marylène's research examines how organisations, through their structures, cultures, rewards, tasks, and management, affect people's motivational orientations towards their work, including volunteer work, and how quality of motivation influences performance and well-being in the workplace. She is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia, and is associate editor for the Academy of Management Annals, Motivation Science, and Motivation and Emotion. She is also a member of the Australian Research Council's College of Experts.

Mind on the Job is created, presented & produced by Dr Ben Searle. Check out our website MindOnTheJob.com for more resources.

Music is Cypher by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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This mini-episode introduces listeners to Self-Determination Theory, a metatheory of motivational concepts connected by the psychological value of autonomy and other basic psychological needs. Basic psychological needs and autonomous motivation are central to my upcoming interview with Professor Marylène Gagné.

This season's mini-episodes are also available in video format -- look for Mind on the Job on YouTube or check out my videos on MindOnTheJob.com.

Mind on the Job is created, presented & produced by Dr Ben Searle.

Music is Cypher by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

If you enjoyed the episode, it would help me if you rate & review the show on your podcast player!