Motivation for achievement of it employees: diagnostic dimensions, research indicators

Abstract

The article considers an important problem of motivation to succeed in the field of IT workers. The purpose of the article is to determine the parameters, diagnostic measurements, indicators of achievement motivation of IT workers. Motivation to achieve is the disposition of the individual, which determines a person’s behavior depending on the focus on success or focus on avoiding failure. The main parameter for determining the motivation to achieve is the level of significance of the task, the task that a person solves and the level of expectation of a positive result from the task. Therefore, the prognostic criterion for motivating the achievement of IT workers was hypothetically determined job satisfaction. Research methods: F. Herzberg’s method (adapted) to determine the level of job satisfaction and T. Ehlers’ method of motivating achievement (method of motivating success, method of
motivating to avoid failure), methods of statistical analysis (correlations of Pearson, Spearman). Рositive correlations are defined between high, moderate, medium level of motivation to succeed and job satisfaction (hygienic and motivational factors). Positive correlations were found between moderate, average level of motivation to succeed and satisfaction with motivational factors, but not satisfaction with hygienic factors, between groups of subjects with moderate, average level of motivation to succeed and satisfaction with hygienic factors, but not satisfaction with  motivation.

Conclusions: the motivation to succeed is dominant over the motivation to avoid failure; employees with high, moderate and medium levels of motivation to succeed are dominated by high rates of job satisfaction; job satisfaction is a prognostic indicator of motivation for success of IT workers.