Adult Intrinsic Motivation Scale

MOTIVATION

- the process which activities are started, directed, and continued so that physical or psychological needs or wants are met

Employee Motivation

- “the willingness to exert high levels of effort toward organizational goals, conditioned by the effort’s ability to satisfy some individual need.”

Intrinsic Motivation

- It is a motivation in which a person executes an action because the act itself is fun, rewarding, challenging, or satisfying in some internal manner.

PURPOSE

- identifying if the person, particularly the adults, is intrinsically motivated at work.

- to recognize the level of their intrinsic motivation, to discover if their actions and their work in the company were fun and rewarding in an internal manner.

PARTICIPANTS

- The target respondents were employees particularly adults currently working in the industrial setting, ages 35 to 60 years old.

- According to Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages, individuals that belong to ages 35 to 60 age range are considered to be on middle age stage.

THEORETICAL

FRAMEWORK

SIGNIFICANCE

- The researchers believe that it is essential for an organization to have intrinsically motivated employees. It can lead to greater efficiency, reduction in absenteeism, improvement of team spirit, and cordial relations.

Motivation could be defined as the process which activities are started, directed, and continued so that physical or psychological needs or wants are met (Petri, 1996 as cited in Ciccarelli & White, 2012).

On the Importance of Self-Determination for Intrinsically-Motivated Behavior (Zuckerman et al.,1978).

The Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (IMI) McAuley, Duncan, and Tammen (1989) did a study to examine the validity of the IMI.

Work Engagement Profile (Thomas, 2009)

AUTONOMY

-independence in doing task at workplace.

COMPETENCE

-exhibit capability of performing tasks.

EMPLOYEES

- 35 to 60 years old working at an industrial workplace.

INTRINSIC MOTIVATION

- a force that drives a person to do a certain activity without receiving external rewards.

Relatedness

- the need to feel a sense of belonging, intimacy, and security in relationship with others.

264 ITEMS

120 ITEMS

competence: 56 items

autonomy: 23 items

relatedness: 41 items

-Administered only through Pencil-Paper method

-Materials required are only the test questionnaire and a writing instrument

- made up of statements on how individual may react or feel at a workplace.

- The Likert scale next to the statements should be shaded accordingly.

- Clearly understands the statements

- There is no right or wrong answer

- Answers should be shaded

- All questions must be answered

- In case of mistake, kindly mark (x)

- Respond honestly

- The scoring scale is the row of circles placed next to the statement

- if the item is not reversed, the scoring will be

> SA (4), A(3), D(2), SD(1)

- If the item is in reversed, the scoring shall be

>SA(1), A(2), D(3), SD(4)

- After the test, the scale will be scored by means of addition

CRONBACH'S ALPHA VALUE

= O.947

- Nature of items is in industrial setting

- Solely focus on the intrinsic aspect of motivation

- Designed for employees: aged 35 to 60

- Philippine setting

- Focuses on the intrinsic motivation of an individual.

- Inclined to adults working in the industrial area

- The test is applicable to industrial setting only.

- Highly reliable

(75 items; α = .947).

- Factors: competence, autonomy and relatedness – based from Self Determination theory

52% of the items were under the factor of competence, preconceived notion can be noted that this particular test measures intrinsic motivation but more on the competence factor of a person.

- First dry run: 50 respondents from different companies; randomly selected

- Second/Final Dry run: 70 respondents from specific organizations

- Respondents: mostly got high level of intrinsic motivation, some of them got a moderate level and no one was measured with low intrinsic motivation.