Title: What determines work motivation of IT professionals: an integrated model

Authors: Ling-Hsiu Chen; Xiaodan Zhou; Rung-Ching Chen; I-Hsueh Chen

Addresses: Department of Information Management, Chaoyang University of Technology, No. 168, Jifeng E. Rd., Wufeng District, Taichung, Taiwan ' College of Computer and Information Engineering, Xiamen University of Technology, No. 600, Ligong Rd., Jimei District, Xiamen, Fujian, China; Department of Information Management, Chaoyang University of Technology, No. 168, Jifeng E. Rd., Wufeng District, Taichung, Taiwan ' Department of Information Management, Chaoyang University of Technology, No. 168, Jifeng E. Rd., Wufeng District, Taichung, Taiwan ' Department of Information Management, Chaoyang University of Technology, No. 168, Jifeng E. Rd., Wufeng District, Taichung, Taiwan

Abstract: This study proposes an integrated model of the relationships among supervisory leadership style, employee achievement motivation, job characteristic perception, and work motivation of information technology (IT) professionals in China. LISREL is applied to test and analyse the proposed model. The results demonstrate that leadership style and employee personal achievement motivation positively influence job characteristic perception for IT professionals. However, leadership style only weakly influences job characteristic perception. Additionally, job characteristic perception positively influence work motivation. Thus, employee personalities should be considered, specifically their achievement motivation before inspiring their positive perception on job characteristics when attempting to recruit IT professionals or improve the quality of existing IT staff.

Keywords: work motivation; job characteristics; achievement motivation; leadership style.

DOI: 10.1504/IJISCM.2017.091274

International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management, 2017 Vol.9 No.4, pp.300 - 314

Received: 14 Aug 2017
Accepted: 01 Feb 2018
Published online: 19 Apr 2018 *

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