Goal Self-concordance And Work Attitudes

Self-determination theory(SDT) contributes to motivation theories bydifferentiating four types of motivation, which lie on a continuum of autonomy orself-determination. Goal self-concordance theory extends SDT research by focusingon people's self-generating goals and their underlying motivational process, whichreveals the integration level of the four types of motivation, that is, the goalself-concordance. According to goal self-concordance researchers, goalself-concordance has significant impact on goal-pursuit behaviors and people'swell-being. Consistent with SDT tradition, they also find the strong relationshipsbetween autonomous motivation and its psychological outcomes.Our research is aimed to investigate the motivation process tmdeflyingpeople's self-generating goals and its influence on task cognition (psychologicalempowerment) and work attitudes(job satisfaction and organizational commitment).We also investigate contextual and personality factors that influence goal self-concordance. Perceived Organizational Support (POS) and self-esteem areconsidered. Models in our study combine the fruits of researches mentioned above.The results indicate that:1.Goal self-concordance and autonomous motivation respectively havesignificant influence on psychological empowerment, while controlled motivationdoes not.2.Goal self-concordance and autonomous motivation respectively havesignificant influence on job satisfaction and affective commitment, and none ofthem has significant influence on normative commitment and continuancecommitment. Controlled motivation has no significant influence on each dimensionof organizational commitment. 3.Psychological empowerment has significant influence on jobsatisfaction and affective commitment.4.Psychological empowerment mediates the relationships between goalself-concordance/autonomous motivation and job attitudes(job satisfaction andaffective commitment).5.POS and self-esteem respectively have significant influence on goalself-concordance...