Employee motivational structure as a factor of organizational commitment

¹ Academy of Law and Management of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, Ryazan, 390000, Russia
² Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University, Nizhny Novgorod, 603005, Russia
³ Novosibirsk Military Institute named after General of the Army I.K. Yakovlev of the National Guard of the Russian Federation, Novosibirsk, st. Klyuch-Kamyshensky plateau, 6/2, 630114, Russia

^* Corresponding author: irinarusa@inbox.ru

Abstract

The article presents empirical findings of characteristics of the employee motivation structure of a manufacturing plant depending on the commitment level of employees. The authors used a complex approach to assessing the employee motivational structure. The diagnostic complex included research methods of employee satisfaction of needs, job satisfaction, personality focus, type of motivational structure. To study the organizational commitment of employees, the organizational commitment questionnaire of L. Porter was used. The number of respondents was 104 people, 51 people of them had a high level of commitment, 53 people – a low level. The empirical study revealed differences in the employee motivational structure depending on the level of their organizational commitment. Employees with a high organizational commitment level demonstrated a more mature and harmonious motivational structure: focus on the task, creative activity in the labour process and aiming at social usefulness; significantly higher satisfaction rates of social and interpersonal needs, needs for recognition and self-expression (p<0.01).