The Relation Research On Enterprise Employees Achievement Motivation, Attribution Style And Performance

Achievement motivation is one of the relatively stable personality traits and an internal force which could drive people to strive for success and accomplish difficult tasks in certain fields. It will manifest itself with the external forms of an individual's great enterprise, aggressiveness, need of self-fulfillment and aspiration for excellence. However, the domestic achievement motivation researches mainly focus on students'performance, which probes the relations between achievement motivation and students'academic performance. Attribution style means an individual's tendency to seek the cause of different events or behaviors with similar or habitual approaches based on his or her experience and present expectation. Many studies have proved the solid relations between an individual's achievement motivation, attribution style and performance.With the outstanding domestic economy development, enterprise managers are placing more and more emphasis on employees'psychological factors to improve their performance. As a result, two of the important personality factors, achievement motivation and attribution style, are considered in this dissertation, which appears absolutely necessary.Three questionnaires i.e. AMS, MMCS and Performance Scales (Edition) are applied, and 223 enterprise employees are randomly selected to be the effective subjects from China Faw Group Corporation and some overseas-funded enterprises and private enterprises located in Shanghai, Beijing, Chongqing, Tianjin, Shenyang, Shenzhen and Changzhou in this dissertation. The aim of this research is to explore: (1) whether or not are there differences between gender, age, education background, type of business and scale of enterprise concerning the achievement motivation and attribution style of the enterprise employees; (2) whether or not are there bivariations between achievement motivation, attribution style and performance of the enterprise employees; (3) whether or not will the achievement motivation be predicted by attribution style of the enterprise employees; (4) whether or not will the performance be predicted by the achievement motivation combined with attribution style of the enterprise employees.The results are as follows:(1) Male enterprise employees'achievement motivation is significantly higher than that of females; overseas-funded and private enterprise employees'achievement motivation significantly higher than that of state-owned enterprise employees; the achievement motivation of employees with above-college education significantly higher than that of those with under-college education; significant differences exist on gender concerning the dimensions of success attributed to external cause, failure attributed to external cause, success attributed to unstable cause, failure attributed to sable cause, success attributed to uncontrollable cause, failure attributed to controllable cause and failure attributed to uncontrollable cause; significant differences exist on education background concerning the dimensions of success attributed to external cause, failure attributed to internal cause, success attributed to unstable cause, failure attributed to stable cause, success and failure attributed to uncontrollable cause; significant differences exist on type of business concerning the dimensions of success attributed to internal cause, success attributed to external cause, failure attributed to external cause, failure attributed to stable cause, success attributed to controllable cause, success and failure attributed to uncontrollable cause.(2) Significantly positive correlation exists between enterprise employees'achievement motivation and performance; performance is significantly and positively correlated with the dimensions of success attributed to internal cause, failure attributed to unstable cause, success and failure attributed to controllable cause; performance is significantly and negatively correlated with the dimensions of success attributed to external cause and uncontrollable cause.(3) The achievement motivation level of enterprise employees could be better predicted by three attribution style dimensions, which are success attributed to external cause and unstable cause and failure attributed to uncontrollable cause.(4) The performance of enterprise employees could be better predicted by achievement motivation level and four attribution style dimensions, success attributed to internal cause, failure and success attributed to uncontrollable cause, success attributed to stable cause.