Relationship of Terminal and Instrumental Human Values to Growth Need Strength and Job Motivation.

摘要

The purpose of this thesis was to determine if a positive and significant relationship existed between an individual's Terminal and Instrumental Human Values and his Growth Need Strength and if a positive and significant relationship existed between an individual's Terminal and Instrumental Human Values and his Job Motivation. Human values were considered to be the standards of humans; therefore, values should directly influence an individual's needs, behavior, and performance. Consequently, an accurate measurement of an individual's value hierarchies should provide good predicators of his needs, behavior, and performance. The Rokeach Value Survey was used ot measure the human values hierarchies, and the Job Diagnostic Survey was used to measure Growth Need Strength and the Job Motivation Potential Score. The Kendall Coefficient of Concordance tested the strength and statistical significance of the relationship between respondents' value hierarchies and their Growth Need Strength. The Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient tested the correlation and statistical significance between the value hierarchies for various Growth Need Strengths. The findings indicated Growth Need Strength seven respondents favored selfesteem and self-actualization need values, and Growth Need Strength six, five, and four respondents favored safety, belongingness, and self-esteem need values. No relationship existed between value hierarchies and job motivation. (Author)