The Degree of Self-Determination and Job Satisfaction of White-Collar Workers in Japanese Firms

• TAKAHASHI Nobuo

  Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo

抄録

In most Japanese major companies, white-collar workers are engaged in lifetime employment system and seniority-based pay system. Since noncontingent money payments do not decrease intrinsic motivation, those companies provide a favorable and unique opportunity to observe and test intrinsic motivation. The present study tests a version of E. L. Deci's (1975) hypothesis that, if a person's feeling of self-determination is enhanced, his or her job satisfaction will increase. With a measure of self-determination which was first developed, the hypothesis is supported by data from 10,916 white-collar workers in 385 organizational units of 46 Japanese major companies: There is a strong linear relationship between the job satisfaction and the degree of self-determination.

収録刊行物

• Annals of Business Administrative Science

  Annals of Business Administrative Science 1 (1), 1-8, 2002

  特定非営利活動法人 グローバルビジネスリサーチセンター

キーワード

• self-determination
• job satisfaction
• white-collar workers

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390001205421516672
• NII論文ID: 130003379079
• DOI: 10.7880/abas.1.1
• ISSN: 13474456
• ISSN: 13474464
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/abas/1/1/1_1/_pdf
• 本文言語コード: en
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