Original scientific paper
THE CONSTRUCTION OF A QUESTIONNAIRE TO MEASURE SELF-INDUCED CONCATENATED DEMOTIVATION
Joško Sindik
Sanja Tvarog
Ana Globočnik Žunac
Abstract
The concept of self-induced concatenated demotivation describes the
“chain“ of demotivational processes and interactions of employees, in the contexts of postsocialism,
job characteristics, dominant forms of motivation and group cohesion in work
organizations. The aim of the preliminary research was to construct a questionnaire to
measure the concept of self-induced concatenated demotivation and the relations between
its latent dimensions. The study included a “snowball“ sample of 196 participants aged 20
to 65, of both genders, with heterogeneous professions and degrees in education. Based on
the results of factor analysis three latent dimensions have been obtained, that account for
only 36% of the total variance of the manifest area of self-induced concatenated demotivation,
which we have named: pessimism/rationalization, social orientation, the ability to
evaluate other people. The questionnaire to measure self-induced concatenated demotivation
of employees has proved to be a low but satisfactory reliable measuring instrument
for all three dimensions of the concept.
Keywords
latent dimensions; job characteristics; motivation; postsocialism
Hrčak ID:
155650
URI
Publication date:
2.12.2013.
Visits: 1.096 *