Actually Getting Some Satisfaction on the Job: Need-Supply Fit of Fundamental Motives at Work.

ABSTRACT: The fit between employees' needs and the opportunity to satisfy them in the workplace is an important predictor of job satisfaction. To make full use of this concept in career development, a fine-grained assessment of needs is necessary to allow for a straightforward interpretation. Fundamental motives provide a theoretically meaningful, self-contained framework of 16 fine-grained explicit motives, including, for instance, Social Acceptance, Curiosity, and Autonomy. Based on a series of response surface analyses in a German online sample of 723 working people, we examined the impact on job satisfaction of three different combinations of fundamental motives and their supply: exact congruence, an excess in the supply, and a shortage in the supply. For an excess in the supply, the results sug

SUBMITTER: Dorendahl J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7437360 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature