PREDICTING WORK PERFORMANCE AND PROFESSIONAL SATISFACTION THROUGH DIFFERENT TYPES OF MOTIVATION AND SELF-ESTEEM
PREDICTING WORK PERFORMANCE AND PROFESSIONAL SATISFACTION THROUGH DIFFERENT TYPES OF MOTIVATION AND SELF-ESTEEM

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this study was to explore an alternative relationship between motivation and self-esteem regarding their prediction power of work performance and professional satisfaction. In contrast to the dominating view that intrinsic motivation is the main type of motivation that leads to increased levels of work performance, we developed a hypothesis proposing that intrinsic motivation mediates the relationship between identified regulation and work performance, thus showing that motivation by identification is the first in terms of prediction and opportunity of intervention. By a cross-sectional survey among 120 employees from different finance and industry organizations, it has been proven that intrinsic motivation and identification motivation add positive predictive power of job satisfaction beyond the negative predictive power of age and competence. Furthermore, identified regulation has been shown to be predicted by an interaction between gender and the educational level. Implications for practice and directions for future research are discussed.

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