Abstract: Building on self-determination theory, we theorized about and demonstrated, through 2 multilevel field studies, the pivotal role of harmonious passion in translating organizational autonomy support and individual autonomy orientation into job creativity. Results based on 3-level data from 856 members in 111 teams within 23 work units of a porous metal company (Study 1) and from 525 employees in 98 teams of 18 branches of a large commercial bank (Study 2) revealed 2 major findings. First, organizational autonomy support from a higher organizational level (unit or branch) compensated for the effect of autonomy support from a lower organizational level (team) or individual autonomy orientation on employees' harmonious passion. Second, harmonious passion mediated the interactive effects of unit (branch) autonomy support and team member autonomy orientation, of team autonomy support and team member autonomy orientation, and of unit (branch) autonomy support and team autonomy support on individual creativity. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings in the organizational context.

Abstract: Autonomy is one of the core concepts of legal and political thought, yet also one of the least understood. The prevailing theory of liberal individualism characterizes autonomy as independence, yet from a social perspective, this conception is glaringly inadequate. In this brilliantly innovative work, Jennifer Nedelsky claims that we must rethink our notion of autonomy, rejecting the usual vocabulary of control, boundaries, and individual rights. If we understand that we are fundamentally in relation to others, she argues, we will recognize that we become autonomous with others-with parents, teachers, employers, and the state. We should not therefore regard autonomy as merely a conceptual tool for assigning rights, but as a capacity that can be fostered or undermined throughout one's life through the relationships and the societal structures we inhabit. The political project thus should not only be to protect the individual from the state and keep the state out, but to use law to construct relations with the state that enhance autonomy. Law's Relations includes many concrete legal applications of her theory of relational autonomy, offering new insights into the debates over due process, judicial review, violence against women, and private versus public law

Abstract: According to the most important theories of justice, personal dignity is closely related to independence, and the care that people with disabilities receive is seen as a way for them to achieve the greatest possible autonomy. However, human beings are naturally subject to periods of dependency, and people without disabilities are only "temporarily abled." Instead of seeing assistance as a limita- tion, we consider it to be a resource at the basis of a vision of society that is able to account for inevitable dependency relationships between "unequals" ensuring a fulfilling life both for the carer and the cared for.** 1. Preface People with disabilities continue to suffer from discrimination in jobs, education, and housing, and are deprived of capabilities as basic as the freedom to move about. Even in aspects of life such as friendships, disabled people, especially if they are cognitively disabled, find themselves excluded (Reinders, 2008). Disability is in search of an ethics that will both articulate the harms faced by people with disabilities—discrimination that threatens dignity as well as well-being—and offer moral resources for redress.

Abstract: Motivation has received increasing attention across counseling approaches, presumably because clients’ motivation is key for treatment effectiveness. The authors define motivation using a self-determination theory taxonomy that conceptualizes motivation along a relative-autonomy continuum. The authors apply the taxonomy in discussing how various counseling approaches address client motivation and autonomy, both in theory and in practice. The authors also consider the motivational implications of nonspecific factors such as therapeutic alliance. Across approaches, the authors find convergence around the idea that clients’ autonomy should be respected and collaborative engagement fostered. The authors also address ethical considerations regarding respect for autonomy and relations of autonomy to multicultural counseling. The authors conclude that supporting autonomy is differentially grounded in theories and differentially implemented in approaches. Specifically, outcome-oriented treatments tend to consider...

Abstract: General Editors' Preface Author's Acknowledgements Introduction Section I: What is autonomy 1 The history of autonomy in language learning 1.1 Origins of the concept 1.2 Autonomy and self-access 1.3 Autonomy and learner training 1.4 Autonomy and individualisation 1.5 Autonomy and interdependence 1.6 Why autonomy? Why now? 1.7 The two faces of autonomy 2 Autonomy beyond the field of language education 2.1 Educational reform 2.2 Adult education 2.3 The psychology of learning 2.4 The philosophy of personal autonomy 2.5 Autonomy in language learning and its sources 3 Defining and describing autonomy 3.1 Dimensions of autonomy 3.2 Versions of autonomy 3.3 Measuring autonomy 3.4 Autonomy and culture 4 Control as a natural attribute of learning 4.1 Self-management in learning 4.2 Learner agendas in the classroom 4.3 Control of psychological factors influencing learning 4.4 The seeds of autonomy 5 Dimensions of control 5.1 Control over learning management 5.2 Control over cognitive processing 5.3 Control over learning content 5.4 Describing the autonomous learner 6 Conclusion Section II: Autonomy in practice 7 Fostering autonomy 8 Resource-based approaches 8.1 Self-access 8.2 Tandem learning 8.3 Distance learning 8.4 Self-instruction 8.5 Out-of-class learning 8.6 The effectiveness of resource-based learning 9 Technology-based approaches 9.1 Computer-assisted language learning 9.2 The Internet 9.3 The effectiveness of technology-based approaches 10 Learner-based approaches 10.1 Learner development and language learning 10.2 Learner development and autonomy 10.3 The effectiveness of learner-based approaches 11 Classroom-based approaches 11.1 Planning classroom learning 11.2 Evaluating classroom learning 11.3 The nature of control in the classroom 11.4 The effectiveness of classroom-based approaches 12 Curriculum-based approaches 12.1 The process syllabus 12.2 Examples of curriculum-based approaches 12.3 The effectiveness of curriculum-based approaches 13 Teacher-based approaches 13.1 Teacher roles 13.2 Teacher autonomy 13.3 Language advising 13.4 Teacher education 13.5 The effectiveness of teacher-based approaches 14 Conclusion Section III: Researching Autonomy 15 Research methods and key areas of research 15.1 Teachers' research 15.2 Key areas of research 16 Case studies 16.1 Case study 1. Out-of-class learning 16.2 Case study 2. Self-organised language learning 16.3 Case study 3. The discourse of language advising 16.4 Case study 4. Self-directed learning in the classroom 16.5 Case study 5. Language acquisition in autonomous classrooms 16.6 Case study 6. What do good independent learners do? 17 Conclusion Section IV: Resources 18 Resources for research and practice 18.1 Books, journals and newsletters 18.2 Conferences and workshops 18.3 Professional associations 18.4 E-mail lists 18.5 Web sites 18.6 Bibliographies 18.7 Self-access centres References Index

Abstract: Research to date does not demonstrate a causal chain from financial education to welfare-enhancing financial behavior, in part due to biases, heuristics, and emotional influences on decisions. Yet the search for effective financial education continues. But it is time to ask whether giving every person effective financial education would make us better off. Two reasons it might not are discussed here. First, the time, expense, and invasion of privacy required would be enormous. Second, such a world would entail a decrease in individual autonomy. Alternative tools could potentially increase household financial welfare and security at lower social and individual expense.

Abstract: Inasmuch as women's subordinate status is a product of the patriarchal structures of constraint that prevail in specific contexts, pathways of women's empowerment are likely to be "path dependent" They will be shaped by women's struggles to act on the constraints that prevail in their societies, as much by what they seek to defend as by what they seek to change The universal value that many feminists claim for individual autonomy may not therefore have the same purchase in all contexts This article examines processes of empowerment as they play out in the lives of women associated with social mobilization organizations in the specific context of rural Bangladesh It draws on their narratives to explore the collective strategies through which these organizations sought to empower the women and how they in turn drew on their newly established "communities of practice" to navigate their own pathways to wider social change It concludes that while the value attached to social affiliations by the women in the study is clearly a product of the societies in which they have grown up, it may be no more context-specific than the apparently universal value attached to individual autonomy by many feminists

Abstract: This paper adds to the growing number of studies about mobility and wellbeing in later life. It proposes a broader understanding of mobility than movement through physical space. Drawing on the ‘mobility turn’ in the social sciences, we conceptualise mobility as the overcoming of any type of distance between a here and a there, which can be situated in physical, electronic, social, psychological or other kinds of space. Using qualitative data from 128 older people in County Durham, England, we suggest that mobility and wellbeing influence each other in many different ways. Our analysis extends previous research in various ways. First, it shows that mobility of the self – a mental disposition of openness and willingness to connect with the world – is a crucial driver of the relation between mobility and wellbeing. Second, while loss of mobility as physical movement can and often does affect older people's sense of wellbeing adversely, this is not necessarily so; other mobilities can at least to some extent compensate for the loss of mobility in physical space. Finally, wellbeing is also enhanced through mobility as movement in physical space because the latter enables independence or subjectively experienced autonomy, as well as inter-dependence in the sense of relatively equal and reciprocal social relations with other people.

Abstract: This paper sets out a simple non-cooperative model of resource allocation within the household in developing countries that incorporates domestic violence as a vehicle for enhancing bargaining power. We demonstrate that the extent of domestic violence faced by women is not necessarily declining in their reservation utilities, or necessarily increasing in their spouses’. Using the National Family Health Survey data of India for 1998–99, we isolate the effect of domestic violence on female autonomy, taking into account the possible endogeneity of domestic violence through the choice of appropriate instruments. We provide some evidence for the evolutionary theory of domestic violence, which argues that such violence stems from the jealousy caused by paternity uncertainty in our evolutionary past. The findings have strong policy implications suggesting that it will take more than an improvement in women’s employment options to address the problem of spousal violence.

Abstract: University governance reforms are very much a reflection of the broader New Public Management reforms that are focusing on increasing efficiency in public organizations. The article deals with how university reform ideas of a generic nature, emphasizing that universities should be treated and reformed like any other public organizations, are important and reflected in specific reform measures. The special empirical focus is on that universities through reforms are changing their formal affiliation to superior ministries in a more autonomous direction, implicating more autonomy in financial, management and decision-making matters. One the other hand, universities are also through reforms more exposed to more report, scrutiny and control systems, financial incentive systems, pressure to get resources from other sources than the government, cut-back management, etc. So a main question in the analysis is whether universities, as traditionally having quite a lot of real autonomy, through the reforms in fact are getting less autonomy, not more, like the reforms entrepreneurs often are promising. The analysis is based on a transformational approach from organization theory, representing a combination of structural, cultural and environmental factors of explanation for reforms processes and their effects. Empirically the article is based on the author’s own empirical studies of university reform and reviews of comparative studies.

Abstract: Acknowledgments Note on sources and key to abbreviations and translations Preface PART ONE: PRELIMINARIES 1. The Nature of and Need for a Metaphysic of Morals: An Analysis of the Preface of GMS 2. Universal Practical Philosophy and Popular Moral Philosophy PART TWO: GMS 1 3. The Good Will 4. Maxims and Moral Worth Redux 5. Kant's Three Propositions, the Supreme Principle of Morality, and the Need for Moral Philosophy PART THREE: GMS 2 6. Rational Agency and Imperatives 7. The Universal Law (FUL) and the Law of Nature (FLN) 8. The Formula of Humanity (FH) 9. Autonomy, Heteronomy, and Constructing the Categorical Imperative PART FOUR: GMS 3 10. The Moral Law, the Categorical Imperative, and the Reciprocity Thesis 11. The Presupposition of Freedom, The Circle, and the two Standpoints 12. The Deduction of the Categorical Imperative and the Outermost Boundary of Practical Philosophy

Abstract: In this chapter the authors discuss modern conceptions of happiness, including hedonic and eudaimonic perspectives. They distinguish happiness as a symptom rather than sine qua non of well-being, and they relate the later to the human capability for autonomous self-regulation. Using a self-determination framework they define autonomy and detail its essential functional role in allowing individuals within any culture to satisfy basic psychological needs for competence and relatedness, and thus to attain psychological well-being and happiness. The chapter also highlights how capacities for autonomous self-regulation, although evolved and “natural” to all humans, are dependent on both proximal (e.g., familial, interpersonal) and distal (political, cultural, economic) supports, and as how need thwarting aspects of social environments can undermine autonomy and wellness.

Abstract: Introduction. The Struggle for Autonomy in Personal and Cultural contexts: An Overview Valery I. Chirkov, Kennon M. Sheldon, and Richard M. Ryan Part 1. A Theoretical Context of Human Autonomy, People's Well-Being, and Happiness 1. Positive Psychology and Self-Determination Theory: A Natural Interface Kennon M. Sheldon and Richard M. Ryan 2. A Self-Determination Theory Perspective on Social, Institutional, Cultural, and Economic Supports for Autonomy and their Importance for Well-being Richard M. Ryan and Edward L. Deci 3. Dialectical Relationships among Human Autonomy, the Brain, and Culture Valery I. Chirkov Part II. Human autonomy across cultures and domains of life: health, education, interpersonal relationships, and work 4. The Role of Autonomy in Promoting Healthy Dyadic, Familial, and Parenting Relationships across Cultures C. Raymond Knee and Ahmet Uysal 5. Do Social Institutions Necessarily Suppress Individuals' Need for Autonomy? The Possibility of Schools as Autonomy Promoting Contexts across the Globe Johnmarshall Reeve and Avi Assor 6. Well-being, Physical Health, and Personal Autonomy Geoffrey Williams, Pedro J. Teixeira, Eliana Carraca, and Ken Resnicow 7. Autonomy in the Workplace: An Essential Ingredient to Employee Engagement and Well-Being in Every Culture Marylene Gagne and Devasheesh Bhave Part III. Human autonomy in modern economy, democracy development, and sustainability 8. Capitalism and Autonomy Tim Kasser 9. Economy, People's Personal Autonomy, and Well-Being Maurizio Pugno 10. The Development of Conceptions of Personal Autonomy, Rights and Democracy and their Relation to Psychological Well-Being Charles C. Helwig and Justin McNeil 11. Personal Autonomy and Environmental Sustainability Luc G. Pelletier, Daniel Baxter, and Veronika Huta

Abstract: Building on previous studies of women's formal, descriptive, and substantive representation in Rwanda, this article examines women's symbolic representation, defined as the broader social and cultural impact of the greater representation of women in the Rwandan political system. It explores the cultural meanings of gender quotas by analyzing popular perceptions of women, of women's roles in politics and society more broadly, and of changing cultural practices vis-a-vis gender. Data were gathered over 24 months of ethnographic research conducted between 1997 and 2009 and by ongoing documentary research. The study finds that although Rwandan women have made few legislative gains, they have reaped other benefits, including increased respect from family and community members, enhanced capacity to speak and be heard in public forums, greater autonomy in decision making in the family, and increased access to education. Yet there have also been some unexpected negative consequences, such as increased friction with male siblings, male withdrawal from politics, increased marital discord, and a perception that marriage as an institution has been disrupted by the so-called upheaval of gender roles. Most significantly, increased formal representation of women has not led to increased democratic legitimacy for the government.

Abstract: Xuesong Gao and Terry Lamb: Exploring Links between Identity, Motivation and Autonomy Section I: Emerging Theoretical PerspectivesEma Ushioda: Motivating Learners to Speak as ThemselvesXuesong Gao and Lawrence Jun Zhang: Joining Forces for Synergy: Agency and Metacognition as Interrelated Theoretical Perspectives on Learner AutonomyLiliane Assis Sade: Emerging Selves, Language Learning and Motivation through the Lens of ChaosVera Lucia Menezes De Oliveira E Paiva: Identity, Motivation, and Autonomy in SLA from the Perspective of Complex Dynamical SystemsSection II: Independent Learning SettingsGarold Murray: Imagination, Metacognition, and the l 2 Self in a Self-Access Learning EnvironmentE. Desiree Castillo Zaragoza: Identity, Motivation and Plurilingualism in SACsLinda Murphy: 'Why am I Doing This?' Maintaining Motivation in Distance Language LearningHayo Reinders and Noemi Lazaro: Beliefs, Identity and Motivation in Implementing Autonomy: The Teacher's PerspectiveSection III: Cultures and ContextsAlice Chik and Stephan Breidbach: Identity, Motivation and Autonomy: A Tale of Two CitiesStephen Ryan and Sarah Mercer: Natural Talent, Natural Acquisition and Abroad: Learner Attributions of Agency in Language LearningMartin Lamb: Future Selves, Motivation And Autonomy In Long-Term EFL Learning TrajectoriesDiane Malcolm: "Failing" to Achieve Autonomy in English for Medical PurposesNeil Cowie and Keiko Sakui: Crucial but Neglected: EFL Teachers' Perspectives on Learner MotivationJing Huang: A Dynamic Account of Autonomy, Agency and Identity in TEFL LearningGarold Murray: Identity, Motivation and Autonomy: Stretching our Boundaries

Abstract: A diverse sample of doctoral students completed an on-line questionnaire assessing their supervisors' academic, personal and autonomy support and their research self-efficacy. The more task-related help and personal support students received, the more positively they evaluated their supervision. The degree to which supervisors encouraged students to think and act autonomously (autonomy support) was not uniquely associated with students' supervision satisfaction but predicted greater research self-efficacy. A combination of high levels of autonomy and academic support was associated with the highest levels of research self-efficacy, whereas when greater levels of personal support were accompanied by low levels of autonomy support, students reported lower research self-efficacy. These results indicate that effective doctoral supervision involves supporting students to voice and act on their own ideas while simultaneously providing guidance on how to complete research tasks.

Abstract: Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Testimony as a Philosophical Problem 1.1 Testimony, Knowledge, and Understanding 1.2 From Human Faith to Inductive Evidence 1.3 On Miracles: Hume Versus Port Royal 1.4 Inference, Perception, and Sociality: Hume Versus Reid 2 Knowing at Second Hand 2.1 What is Testimonial Knowledge? 2.2 Secondhandness and the Epistemic Right of Deferral 2.3 The Epistemological Problem of Testimony Revisited 2.4 An Argument from Secondhandness 2.5 Skepticism About Knowing at Second Hand 3 Three Models of Epistemic Dependence 3.1 The Evidential Model 3.2 The Inheritance Model 3.3 The Second-Personal Model 3.4 Moran on Assurance 3.5 Intermediate Cases and the Return of Epistemic Autonomy 4 Trusting a Person 4.1 The Grammar of Trust 4.2 Second-Personal Attitudes 4.3 Trust as Second-Personal 4.4 Trust as Cognitive 5 Authority, Autonomy, and Second-Personal Reasons 5.1 Second and Third-Personal Reasons 5.2 Second-Personal Reasons for

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to explore an alternative relationship between job autonomy and employee outcomes. In contrast to the dominating view that perceived job autonomy leads to increased levels of intrinsic motivation and in turn work performance, we developed a hypothesis proposing that intrinsic motivation moderates the relationship between perceived job autonomy and work performance. Two cross-sectional surveys among 302 employees from different Norwegian service organizations showed that the relationship between perceived job autonomy and both self-reported and line-manager rated work quality was moderated by intrinsic motivation. The form of the moderation revealed a positive relationship only for employees high in intrinsic motivation in both studies. Implications for practice and directions for future research are discussed.

Abstract: This paper explores the impact of the increasingly performative nature of the assessment of teachers’ performance in England leading to the introduction of Professional Standards for Teachers in 2007. It reports the findings of a small‐scale study of newly‐qualified primary school teachers in the context of literature on teacher identity, performativity and professional development. It suggests the possible emergence of a ‘post‐performative’ identity; a generation of teachers whose experience as pupils has been of an increasingly performative schooling system. These post‐performative teachers cannot be categorised as either ‘compliant’ or ‘resistant’ to the demands of performative management systems and government initiatives. They are still largely motivated by affective rewards, but have clear career ambitions; they are aware of the potential conflicts between the demands of accountability and the desire for autonomy, but are generally comfortable with the balance they feel able to strike between these....

Abstract: PrefaceTranslator's NoteIntroduction: The Foundation of JusticePart 1: Foundations: Practical Reason, Morality, and Justice1. Practical Reason and Justifying Reasons: On the Foundation of Morality2. Moral Autonomy and the Autonomy of Morality: Toward a Theory of Normativity After Kant3. Ethics and Morality4. The Justification of Justice: Rawls's Political Liberalism and Habermas's Discourse Theory in DialoguePart 2: Political and Social Justice5. Political Liberty: Integrating Five Conceptions of Autonomy6. A Critical Theory of Multicultural Toleration7. The Rule of Reasons: Three Models of Deliberative Democracy8. Social Justice, Justification, and PowerPart 3: Human Rights and Transnational Justice9. The Basic Right to Justification: Toward a Constructivist Conception of Human Rights10. Constructions of Transnational Justice: Comparing John Rawls's The Law of Peoples and Otfried H ffe's Democracy in an Age of Globalisation11. Justice, Morality, and Power in the Global Context12. Toward a Critical Theory of Transnational JusticeNotesBibliography

Abstract: Aim To review critically the traditional concept of autonomy, propose an alternative relational interpretation of autonomy, and discuss how this would operate in identifying and addressing ethical issues that arise in the context of nursing home care for older adults. Background Respect for patient autonomy has been the cornerstone of clinical bioethics for several decades. Important though this principle is, there is debate on how to interpret the core concept of autonomy. We review the appeal of the traditional approach to autonomy in health care and then identify some of the difficulties with this conception. Methods We use philosophical methods to explain and discuss the traditional and relational conceptions of autonomy and we illuminate our discussion with examples of various contextual applications. Conclusion We support the relational conception of autonomy as offering a richer, more contextualized understanding of autonomy which attends to the social, political and economic conditions that serve as background to an agent’s deliberations. To illuminate these ideas, we discuss the situation of frail older adults who frequently find their autonomy limited not only by their medical conditions but also by cultural prejudices against the aged and by the conditions commonly found within the nursing homes in which many reside. We propose ways of improving the relational autonomy of this population.

Abstract: Despite enthusiasm for patient-centered care, the practice of patient-centered care is proving challenging. Further, it is curious that the literature about this subject does not explicitly address patient autonomy, since (1) patients guide care in patient-centered care, and (2) respect for patient autonomy is a prominent health-care value. We argue that by explicitly adopting a relational conception of autonomy as an essential component, patient-centered care becomes more coherent, is strengthened, and could help practitioners to make better use of a principle of respect for autonomy. Hence, its use appears promising to narrow the theory–practice gap.

Abstract: Research universities are complex institutions with multiple academic and societal roles. They are both national institutions that contribute to culture, technology and society, and international institutions that link to global intellectual and scientific trends. There is widespread recognition of the importance of research universities but many countries do not recognise their complexity and the resources needed for building and sustaining them. Research universities face a number of challenges, mainly the pressures towards privatisation and that of maintaining their autonomy and controlling essential academic decision-making. Central to the success of a research university is adequate and stable funding.

Abstract: The purpose of the present study, grounded in self-determination theory, was to explore the relationship between Paralympic athletes' perceptions of autonomy-supportive coach behavior, basic psychological needs, and intrinsic motivation to know, accomplish, and experience stimulation. One hundred thirteen Canadian Paralympic athletes completed an online survey, consisting of measures of coach autonomy support; of perceptions of autonomy, competence, and relatedness; and of intrinsic motivation. Perceived coach autonomy support was a predictor of athletes' perceptions of autonomy and relatedness. Perceived competence was a significant predictor of all three forms of intrinsic motivation, while perceived autonomy was a significant predictor of intrinsic motivation to accomplish and experience stimulation. The results highlight the important relationship between coach behavior and athlete motivation in disability sport.

Abstract: Developing upon cross-sectional research (Smith, Ntoumanis, & Duda, 2007) supporting the self-concordance model (Sheldon & Elliot, 1999) as a framework for contextual goal striving, the current study investigated the assumptions of the model in relation to season-long goal striving in sport. The study additionally examined the role of coping strategies in the persistence of goal-directed effort. Structural equation modeling analysis with a sample of 97 British athletes indicated that start-of-season autonomous goal motives were linked to midseason effort, which subsequently predicted end-of-season goal attainment. Attainment was positively related to changes in psychological need satisfaction, which, in turn, predicted changes in emotional well-being. In a second model, autonomous and controlled motives positively predicted task- and disengagement-oriented coping strategies, respectively. In turn, these strategies were differentially associated with effort. The findings provide support for contextual adaptations of the self-concordance model and demonstrate the role of coping strategies in the goal striving process.

Abstract: Shared decision-making approaches, by recognizing the autonomy and responsibility of both health professionals and patients, aim for an ethical ‘middle way’ between ‘paternalistic’ and ‘consumerist’ models of clinical decision making Shared decision making has been understood in various ways In this paper, we distinguish narrow and broader conceptions of shared decision making and explore their relative strengths and weaknesses In the first part of the paper, we construct a summary characterization of an archetypal narrow conception of shared decision making (a conception that does not coincide with any specific published model but which reflects features of a variety of models) We show the shortcomings of such a conception and highlight the need to broaden out our thinking about shared decision making if the ethical (and instrumental) goals of shared decision making are to be realized In the second part of the paper, we acknowledge and explore the advantages and disadvantages of operating with broader conceptions of shared decision making by considering the analogies between health professional–patient relationships and familiar examples of ‘open-ended’ relationships (eg friendships) We conclude by arguing that the illustrated ‘trade-offs’ between narrow conceptions (which may protect patients from inappropriately paternalistic professionals but preclude important forms of professional support) and broad conceptions (which render more forms of professional support legitimate but may require skills or virtues that not all health professionals possess) suggest the need to find ways, in principle and in practice, of taking seriously both patient autonomy and autonomy-supportive professional intervention

Abstract: Extending research on voluntary turnover in the team setting, this study adopts a multilevel self-determination theoretical approach to examine the unique roles of individual and social-contextual motivational precursors, autonomy orientation and autonomy support, in reducing team member voluntary turnover. Analysis of multilevel time-lagged data collected from 817 employees on 115 teams indicates that psychological empowerment mediates the main effect of autonomy orientation and the interactive effect of autonomy support and its differentiation on a team member's voluntary turnover. The findings have meaningful implications for the turnover and self-determination literatures as well as for managers who endeavor to prevent voluntary turnover in teams.

Abstract: This study investigates cell phones in perceptions of autonomy and connection within the romantic relationships of college students. Self-report measures of rules for cell phone use, cell phone conflicts and their management, and perceptions of autonomy vs. connection were administered. Results revealed the use of cell phones was a source of autonomy-connection conflict, with higher levels of tension related to more conflict over quantity of calling and texting and over use with the opposite sex. Commonly reported rules pertained to timing of calls and texts, although many reported no rules. Selection and Neutralization were employed to address the dialectical tension.

Abstract: The nature of organizational life requires questioning the role of worker autonomy. An impressive amount of management research has been devoted to autonomy issues in organizations. Autonomy is at the forefront of research on job design and the management of employees. Therefore, we review evidence in the area of job design and management practices that deeply affect worker autonomy. Throughout this discussion, we evaluate the cross-cultural applicability of research and practice and offer future directions based on self-determination theory.