Job Motivation of Secondary School Teachers : An Application of the Job Characteristics Theory
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Job Motivation of Secondary School Teachers : An Application of the Job Characteristics Theory
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The author assesses the motivation for a sample of 93 Anglophone secondary schoolteachers from two Lakeshore School Board schools using the complete "Job Characteristics Model" designed by Hackman and Oldham (1980). The author’s findings reveal that the schools were very homogeneous. In the core job characteristics, autonomy was the most important motivating factor for teachers, followed by task significance, skill variety, feedback from the job and lastly task identity. In the critical psychological states, experienced meaningful of the work was the highest degree, followed by experienced responsibility for outcomes of the work, and knowledge of results of the work activities. Other dimensions revealed that dealing with others had a relatively high score, followed closely by internal work motivation, an outcome factor of the theory, and finally that feedback from agents was the lowest score. The author concludes that the motivating potential score of 174, out of a possible 343 reflected the overall potential of a job to foster internal work motivation on the part of the teacher.
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Master's Thesis
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McGill University
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Montreal
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1990
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[xi]-131p.
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en
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Fournier, Nicole Marie Lucille. “Job Motivation of Secondary School Teachers : An Application of the Job Characteristics Theory.” Master’s Thesis, McGill University, 1990. https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/xk81jm62j.
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