Different Determinants of Task Persistence and Growth Satisfaction: Affective Responses to Perfor Mance, Planning and Job Characteristics

Preston C. Bottger and Murray A. Woods
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Preston C. Bottger: Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales.
Murray A. Woods: Faculty of Business, University of Technology, Sydney.

Australian Journal of Management, 1988, vol. 13, issue 2, 303-317

Abstract: We question the assumption that short term motivation and longer term professional growth satisfaction are functions of the same factors. Task persistence, a key index of motivation, is shown to be an inverse function of depression in response to setbacks, a positive function of planning and is independent of job scope and context satisfaction. Growth satisfaction is a positive function of work success, elation in response to success, job scope and context satisfaction. Subjects are 130 salespersons. The findings question a basic tenet of job enrichment theory; namely, that motivation is a function of job design, and supports the proposition that individual differences in affective responses to perfor Mance predict unique variance in motivation and growth.

Keywords: MOTIVATION; GROWTH; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
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DOI: 10.1177/031289628801300211

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