University Staff's Work Motivation: Do Personal Factors Make A Difference?
Keywords:
work motivation, personal factor, staff, higher education, VietnamAbstract
This study explores perceptions of university staff toward work motivation, as well as the relationship between perceived personal factor and staff’s work motivation. Questionnaires measuring factors of work motivation were distributed to 71 full-time working staffs of the Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City. The empirical results reveal that the levels of work motivation of staff in VNU-HCM are moderately high. The findings of this study also indicated that there were significant differences in work motivation levels in terms of age, length of employment, academic qualification, and income per month.
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Bedrnová, E., & Nový, I. (2002). Psychologie a sociologie řízení. Praha: Management Press.
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Hauser, L. (2014). Work motivation in organizational behavior. Economics, Management, and Financial Markets, 4, 239-246.
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Khalid, Z., Humera, J., Sajjad, H. N., & Syed, S. (2011). Relationship between Rewards and Employees Motivation in the Non-Profit Organizations of Pakistan (1st ed.). Retrieved from https://saycocorporativo.com/saycoUK/BIJ/journal/Vol4No2/Article_11.pdf
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Malaney, G. D. (2002). You still need high response rates with web-based surveys. Student Affairs On-Line, 3(1).
Nunnally, J. C., & Bernstein, I. H. (1994). Psychometric theory (2nd ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Page, L. (2008). Do not show me the money? The growing popularity of non-monetary incentives in the workplace. American Journal of Economics, 93-96.
Re’em, Y. (2010). Motivating public sector employees: An application-oriented analysis of possibilities and practical Tools. (Unpublished master's thesis). Hertie School of Governance, Germany.
Robbins, S. P., & Judge, T. A. (2016). Essentials of organizational behavior (13th ed.). Pearson.
Shaheen, I., Sajid, M. A., & Batool, Q. (2013). Factors affecting the motivation of academic staff. International Journal of Business and Management Invention, 2(1), 105-112.
Shrum. L. J. (2007). The implications of survey method for measuring cultivation effects. Human Communication Research, 33(1), 64-80
Stamov-Roßnagel C. (2015). Work Motivation and Aging. In Pachana N. (eds), Encyclopedia of Geropsychology. Springer, Singapore
Sylvestre, M., He H. Y., Zhao, Y. Y., & Shan J. F. (2017). Factors and levels associated with lecturers’ motivation and job satisfaction in a Chinese university. EURASIA Journal of Mathematics Science and Technology Education, 13(10), 6415-6430.
Syed, S., Raza, J. A., Jabran, A., Ejaz, W., Ul-Haq, I., & Syed, N. R. (2011). Workload and performance of employees. Interdisciplinary Journal of Contemporary Research Business, 3(5), 256-258.
Tran, V. H. (2016). Factors influencing staffs’ work motivation in the Department of Labor Invalids and Social Affairs in Nam Dinh Provide. (Unpublished masters’ thesis). University of Labour and Social Affairs, Vietnam.
Tremblay, M. A., Blanchard, M. C., Taylor, S., Pelletier, L. G., & Villeneuve, M. (2009). Work extrinsic and intrinsic motivation scale: Its value for organizational psychology research. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 41(4), 213–226.
Towers, D. (2006). An investigation whether organisational culture is directly linked to motivation and performance trough looking at Google Inc. The Birmingham business school, 1(1),1-31.
Ufuophu-Biri, E., & Iwu, C. G. (2014). Job motivation, job performance and gender relations in the broadcast sector in Nigeria. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 5(16), 191-198
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Zámečník, R. (2014). The measurement of employee motivation by using multi-factor statistical analysis. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 109, 851 – 857
Zhou, Y., & Volkwein, J. F. (2003). The influences on faculty departure in two-year colleges: A national study using NSOPF-99. Paper presented at the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Conference, Portland.
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2019-06-30
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Duong, M.-Q., & Le, T.-T.-Y. (2019). University Staff’s Work Motivation: Do Personal Factors Make A Difference?. Thai Journal of East Asian Studies, 23(1), 2–17. Retrieved from https://so02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/easttu/article/view/199974
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