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  • Motivaatio ja työsitoutuminen suomalaisessa sosiaali- ja terveysalan organisaatiossa 
    Malinen, Rosa (2020)
    Aims. The present research examines care workers’ motivation and work commitment in a Finnish social and health care organization. The aim of the study was to investigate the current state of the employees’ motivation, work commitment and the self-determination theory’s basic psychological needs, and their relation to effort in work and to the intention of leaving the organization. Moreover, the study also examined the relationships between motivation, commitment and basic psychological needs. Motivation was divided to intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation based on intangible rewards. Work commitment included affective and normative professional commitment, colleague commitment, customer commitment and affective, normative and continuance organizational commitment. Method. This investigation was carried out with a survey which was composed using several former inquiries developed to measure motivation and dimensions of work commitment. The voluntary survey was sent to the target group employees by email. In total, the survey collected 600 answers which meant that the response rate was 30%. The data was analyzed using correlation, cluster analyses and structural equation modeling. Results. The care workers intrinsic motivation and professional commitment, colleague commitment and customer commitment were quite strong. All the dimensions of the organizational commitment and extrinsic motivation were in turn quite weak. The effort on work was evaluated to be strong and especially the sense of competence, intrinsic motivation, affective professional commitment as well as customer commitment played a meaningful role in it. In addition, there was some intention to leave the organization among the employees and according to the results the sense of autonomy, affective professional commitment and affective and normative organizational commitment reduced the intention to leave. The study clarified that the basic psychological needs of the self-determination theory are interconnected, not only to intrinsic motivation, but also to affective work commitment. The sense of autonomy was quite strong but because it had a direct as well as an indirect effect on the intention to leave, it was suggested that the organization should work on strengthening it more. Furthermore, the sense of competence can explain the conclusion made from the analyses of the study that extrinsic motivation based on intangible rewards supports intrinsic motivation. The results showed that care workers’ motivation and work commitment can be strengthened with diverse possibilities to influence and with positive feedback.
  • Sinnikkyyttä ja mielihyvää, vai ulkoista motivoitumista : vanhempien sosioekonomisen aseman yhteys lukiolaisten korkeimpaan tutkintotavoitteeseen ja henkilökohtaiseen opiskelutavoitteeseen 
    Moilanen, Ville-Johannes (2016)
    Aims. The aim of the research was to find out are there any connections between parents socioconomical status and secondary school students highest degree goals, their personal study goals, and how they experience them. In addition, one aim was to find out are there any connections between parents socioeconomical status and how students motivate themselves for their goals. Furthermore, I consider do these connections differ between genders. Methodology. The research was conducted as a part of a larger Mind the Gap research project funded by the Academy of Finland in the spring of 2013. 1342 first year secondary school students from 17 different secondary schools in Helsinki took part in the research. Students named their highest degree goal and also named one personal study goal. The answers were analysed with the help of a contingency table. On questions of personal project analysis inventory, Little's (1983) PPA-indicator was used, and on motivation Deci and Ryan's (1985) SDT-indicator. The results were analysed by using a one-way analysis of variance. Results and conclusions. The study shows, in accordance to earlier studies made in a Finnish context, that there is a connection between parents socialeconomical status and students highest degree goals, but the connection is not strong. Furthermore, the study shows that 50,8% of first year secondary school students don't know what is their highest degree goal. No significant connection of personal study goals on secondary school students was found. But there is a significant connection between how students experienced reaching their goals and how they motivated themselves to reach them. Students whose mothers are managerial employees experienced stronger progress and persistence. When both parents have a higher sociaeconomical status, there is a connection between the students intrinsic motivation to reach their personal study goals. The results show that a higher sosioeconimical status leads students to find a natural intrinsic motivation for secondary school studies.

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